Hi Stephen, Aggregated PDF is clearly something XWiki can do.. Table of Content it can do it too thanks to Jiri ! But it's true that it's currently not possible to handle page numbering and adding the numbers to the table of content.. Now this is a really powerful and interesting feature.. I'm highly interested in how this could be done and learning about existing tools that can do it.. If cocoon can do it, it could be possible to write a wrapper around the cocoon feature that does it as long as cocoon can accept the XHTML of XWiki. Maybe it's not that complex and FOP or PDF can give us some help in this area with some easy markup.. Any pointers about existing tools that do it would help me check how this could be put in XWiki. I'm adding the developers list because developers could have some ideas ! Ludovic Stephen Schaub wrote:
I am attempting to use Xwiki as a CMS for software development project documentation. A key requirement is to generate aggregate documents with page numbers and a table of contents. Currently, Xwiki doesn't seem to offer this feature, so I thought I would try using Cocoon to pull documents from Xwiki, aggregate them, and generate a PDF. (Cocoon lets you get source documents either from the file system, or from http URL's.)
Has anyone attempted this before? I am running into difficulty and am not an expert on Xwiki or Cocoon, though I do have some experience with xslt technology. Before spinning my wheels too much, I thought I would post here to see if there might be a better way to accomplish what I want to do.
I really like what I see in Xwiki, but if there is another product that might work better for this requirement, I might consider it. I've looked at a number of free CMS products, and so far I haven't found any that offer the ease of Wiki editing with the kind of aggregate PDF generation I want (specifically, TOC with page numbers). Last year in teaching this class I used Apache Forrest, but it's not very user friendly. I would love to find something that would be easier for the students to use.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions...
Stephen
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