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| for the Apache Velocity project ( | |
| <code class="uri">http://velocity.apache.org/</code>) and ended somehow up to be a | |
| generic framework to render DocBook documents using Java and driven by | |
| Apache ant.</p><p>While DocBook format seems to be ubiquitous these days, to our | |
| surprise there were not many generic frameworks around that could render | |
| all kinds of formats, are platform independent, do not require lots of | |
| infrastructure installed and are easily customizable.</p><p>Projects either use heavily customized and hacked style sheets or | |
| a mix of Java and other applications. Adjusting such a rendering | |
| framework to the needs of the Apache Velocity project was not easy, so | |
| at some point, we decided to redo this (almost) from scratch.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch01s02.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DocBook Framework (DBF) </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> 1.2 License Information</td></tr></table></div></body></html> |