Apache Forrest 0.6 Release Notes ... http://forrest.apache.org/

Apache Forrest is an XML standards-oriented documentation framework
based upon Apache Cocoon, providing XSLT stylesheets and schemas,
images and other resources. Forrest uses these to render the source
content into a website via command-line, robot, or dynamic application.
For more details, please see the website at http://forrest.apache.org/

Status
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New features in this version include:

* Uses all resources in-place. No more copying to a separate
build space and so no need to back-copy your changes.
* This provides workflow and productivity improvements.
* Project sitemaps get first chance processing, then pass-through
to core sitemaps. This simplifies management of project sitemaps.
* Project sitemaps provide easy access to the power of Apache Cocoon.
* New skins use CSS rather than tables. Old skins are deprecated.
* Skins are configurable, e.g. with colours and optional features.
* DTD improvements, especially addition of ubiquitous class attribute.
* Forrestbot, robotic build and deploy, has been entirely re-written.

Full list of changes: http://forrest.apache.org/changes.html

Upgrade guide: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/upgrading_06.html

Requirements
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- A Java Runtime Environment (1.3 or higher) installed.
  This can be obtained from http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html
  or other places.

- To build from source requires a Java Development Kit (1.3 or higher)

Apache Ant is not required: Forrest uses its own version of Ant in tools/ant/
Apache Cocoon is not required: Forrest uses its own version.

Installing Apache Forrest
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The distribution contains all Forrest resources (skins, XSLTs, images,
schemas), source code and Forrest's own website documentation.

- Copy somewhere permanent, like /usr/local/forrest or c:\forrest
  Support for installation on Windows systems into directories containing
  spaces is very new, please report back on your success or failure.

- Set the FORREST_HOME environment variable to point to src/core
- Add to the system PATH environment variable, i.e.
  $FORREST_HOME/bin (Unix) or %FORREST_HOME%\bin (Windows)

Getting Started
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See the file index.html for the quick start tips.

Issue tracking
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If you notice what appears to be a bug, please report it via the
Forrest issue tracker: http://issues.cocoondev.org/

Known issues are summarized at: http://forrest.apache.org/forrest-issues.html
(a nice example of RSS syndication).

Feedback
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Feedback, feature suggestions, bugs and any other issues can be discussed on
http://forrest.apache.org/mail-lists.html