Re: Lenya suitable as Docbook Help Authoring Tool?

Juergen Weber wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking into Lenya as Help Authoring Tool. So far installation proved
> easy, learning was quick. An avantage for help authoring is that users
> cannot enter fancy styles and can use only what the editor allows. 
>
> Idea is to create help using the CMS, convert to docbook and then via XSL to
> Eclipse help.
>
> As I understand, Lenya is Cocoon based, so content is there in XML. How do
> you get it? By adressing content directly on the file system? Where is it?
> Or is there an API in the web app?
>
> Has anybody managed to transform Lenya XML to docbook?
>
> Similar thing, how do you get PDF output for users? This question appears
> several times on the list, but no good answer, is there?
>
> Looks like others had a similar docbook idea, too:
> http://old.nabble.com/using-lenya---forrest-for-ubuntu-documentation--td182244.html#a184847
> Anybody got an idea what became of this?
>
> Thanks,
> Juergen
>   

You would have a couple of options. You could either access it directly 
on the filesystem or you could create a usecase. Since I'm not familiar 
with Docbook, it's hard for me to say what the best option is. The 
content is in: webapp/lenya/pubs/pubname/content/area/UUID/lang.

Where pubname is the name of your publication, area is 
authoring/live/trash/archive, UUID is the UUID of the document, and lang 
is the two letter representation of the language. It might do 
regionalized languages too. The page tree is in the area directory by 
the name of sitetree.xml.

PDF requires that you have a usecase that will transform the content to 
PDF via XSL-FO. I did get a proof of concept to work once upon a time in 
testing. However, we figured it would confuse our users more, so it 
didn't make it into production.

Richard