Welcome to Beacon's Project Page

Beacon is a WYSIWYG web-based GuideXML editor. This website is used to track its development.

Beacon is aimed at being a generic XML editor, beyond just GuideXML. Any XML format that has an ultimate output format like PDF or HTML is a good candidate for a beacon-editable document. Beacon allows the user to edit the output of that XML document and will automatically generate the input corresponding to the output the user sees.

This project was funded by Google, under their Summer of Code program for Gentoo; both in 2006 and 2008.

Download

There is no stable version as of now. Get the source code below.

Source

Beacon uses GIT for version control. To check out the code to a local repository:

git clone git://git.tuxfamily.org/gitroot/beacon/trunk.git

You can also view the code directly in your browser.

Contact

All Beacon developers hang out in #beacon on the Freenode IRC network. Feel free to drop by!

The team and their roles (in no real order):

• KillerX (all trades)
• n9986 (PHP and Javascript)
• quantumsummers (python)
• gargoyle_grin (python)

License

Beacon is licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License. Feel free to modify and redistribute at will. Patches and bug reports are appreciated!