Introduction – Doxia
Maven Doxia
Doxia is a content generation framework which aims to provide its users with powerful techniques for generating static and dynamic content: Doxia can be used in web-based publishing context to generate static sites, in addition to being incorporated into dynamic content generation systems like blogs, wikis and content management systems.
Doxia supports
markup languages with simple syntaxes
. Lightweight markup languages are used by people who might be expected to read the document source as well as the rendered output.
Doxia is used extensively by
Maven
and it powers the entire documentation system of Maven. It gives Maven the ability to take any document that Doxia supports and output it any format.
The current version of
Doxia base framework
is 2.0.0.
Brief History
Based on the (now defunct) Aptconvert project developed by
Xmlmind
, Doxia was initially hosted by
Codehaus
, to become a sub-project of Maven early in 2006.
Main Features
Developed in Java
Support of several markup formats
: APT (Almost Plain Text), Markdown, FML (FAQ Markup Language), XDoc (popular in Apache land), XHTML
Easy to
learn the syntax of the supported markup formats
Macro support
No need to have a corporate infrastructure (like wiki) to host your documentation
Extensible framework
Site Tools extension
for site or document rendering
Additional Tools
like
Doxia Converter
Doxia Reference Pages
See
Doxia Markup Languages References
page for a listing of all supported markups for each format.