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Maven places all site documents under src/site. Documents of similar format are placed in subdirectories of src/site. All APT documents should be in src/site/apt, all FML documents should be in src/site/fml, and XDoc documents should be in src/site/xdoc. The site descriptor should be in src/site/site.xml, and all resources should be stored under src/site/resources. When the Maven Site plugin builds a web site, it will copy everything in the resources directory to the root of the site. If you store an image in src/site/resources/images/test.png, you would refer to the image from your site documentation using the relative path images/test.png.

The following example shows the location of all files in a project which contains APT, FML, HTML, XHTML, and some XDoc. Note that the XHTML content is simply stored in the resources directory. The architecture.html file will not be processed by Doxia, it will simply be copied to the output directory. You can use this approach if you want to include unprocessed HTML content and you don’t want to take advantage of the templating and formatting capabilities of Doxia and the Maven Site plugin.

sample-project
+- src/
   +- site/
      +- apt/
      |  +- index.apt
      |  +- about.apt
      |  |
      |  +- developer/
      |  +- embedding.apt
      |
      +- fml/
      |  +- faq.fml
      |
      +- resources/
      |  +- images/
      |  |  +- banner-left.png
      |  |  +- banner-right.png
      |  |
      |  +- architecture.html
      |  +- jira-roadmap-export-2007-03-26.html
      |
      +- xdoc/
      |  +- xml-example.xml
      |
      +- site.xml

Note that the developer documentation is stored in src/site/apt/developer/embedding.apt. This extra directory below the apt directory will be reflected in the location of the resulting HTML page on the site. When the Site plugin renders the contents of the src/site/apt directory it will produce HTML output in directories relative to the site root. If a file is in the apt directory it will be in the root directory of the generated web site. If a file is in the apt/developer directory it will be generated in the developer/ directory of the web site.