RichFaces moves to AsciiDoc

Brian Leathem

4 minute read

With RichFaces 5 we have made a significant change to our documentation tool-chain with the introduction of AsciiDoc to simplify the task of authoring and editing the RichFaces documentation. Our documentation has for a long time been based on Docbook xml against which we have applied the Red Hat PressGang XSLT to create the HTML and PDF output of our docs. Additionally the Docbook xml is fed downstream into Red Hat’s Web Framework Kit product (WFK), where it undergoes further transformations to fit well into Red Hat’s product documentation.