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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:37:44 +0000
From: Ross Gardler <rgardler@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Plugging into a site.xml
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Ferdinand Soethe wrote:
> Hi Arik,
> 
> AK> We are writing software that utilizes Forrest and generates a complete
> AK> Forrest documentation project from some outside data. The only thing
> AK> that is provided from outside our software is the menu structure and
> 
> Check out this example from a recent thread
> 
>       Q: Integrate multipage externally generated content
> 
> It shows how to use x-include to insert buildingblocks into an
> existing site.xml.

This assumes you have a prebuilt site.xml snippet. This is not the case 
here, Arik has a different document format to start with and needs to 
translate it before it can be included. This will need to be dones with 
a transformation, therefore in internal plugin is the answer.

> What I don't know/ haven't asked if this works with tabs as well, but
> you could always ask Sjur.

It does, but again, only if your snippet to include is already in the 
right format.

Ross