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+## This is where the common macro's live
+
+#macro ( table $table)
+  <table>
+  #foreach ( $items in $table.getChildren() )
+    #if ($items.getName().equals("tr"))
+      #tr ($items)
+    #end
+  #end
+  </table>
+#end
+
+#macro ( tr $tr)
+  <tr>
+  #foreach ( $items in $tr.getChildren() )
+    #if ($items.getName().equals("td"))
+      #td ($items)
+    #elseif ($items.getName().equals("th"))
+      #th ($items)
+    #end
+  #end
+</tr>
+#end
+
+#macro ( td $value)
+  #if ($value.getAttributeValue("colspan"))
+    #set ($colspan = $value.getAttributeValue("colspan"))
+  #end
+  #if ($value.getAttributeValue("rowspan"))
+    #set ($rowspan = $value.getAttributeValue("rowspan"))
+  #end
+  <td bgcolor="$tabletdbg" colspan="$!colspan" rowspan="$!rowspan" 
+      valign="top" align="left">
+    <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+    #if ($value.getText().length() != 0 || $value.hasChildren())
+      $xmlout.outputString($value, true)
+    #else
+      &nbsp;
+    #end
+    </font>
+  </td>
+#end
+
+#macro ( th $value)
+  #if ($value.getAttributeValue("colspan"))
+    #set ($colspan = $value.getAttributeValue("colspan"))
+  #end
+  #if ($value.getAttributeValue("rowspan"))
+    #set ($rowspan = $value.getAttributeValue("rowspan"))
+  #end
+  <td bgcolor="$tablethbg" colspan="$!colspan" rowspan="$!rowspan" 
+      valign="top" align="left">
+    <font color="#000000" size="-1" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+    #if ($value.getText().length() != 0 || $value.hasChildren())
+      $xmlout.outputString($value, true)
+    #else
+      &nbsp;
+    #end
+    </font>
+  </td>
+#end
+
+#macro ( projectanchor $name $value )
+  #if ($value.startsWith("http://"))
+    <a href="$value">$name</a>
+  #elseif ($value.startsWith("/site"))
+    <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org$value">$name</a>
+  #else
+    <a href="$relativePath$value">$name</a>
+  #end
+#end
+
+#macro ( metaauthor $author $email )
+  <meta name="author" value="$author">
+  <meta name="email" value="$email">
+#end
+
+#macro ( image $value )
+  #if ($value.getAttributeValue("width"))
+    #set ($width=$value.getAttributeValue("width"))
+  #end
+  #if ($value.getAttributeValue("height"))
+    #set ($height=$value.getAttributeValue("height"))
+  #end
+  #if ($value.getAttributeValue("align"))
+    #set ($align=$value.getAttributeValue("align"))
+  #end
+  <img src="$relativePath$value.getAttributeValue("src")" 
+       width="$!width" height="$!height" align="$!align">
+#end
+
+#macro ( source $value)
+  <div align="left">
+    <table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
+      <tr>
+        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+        <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+        <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>$escape.getText($value.getText())</pre></td>
+        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+        <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+        <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+  </div>
+#end
+
+#macro ( makeProject )
+  #set ($menus = $project.getChild("body").getChildren("menu"))
+  #foreach ( $menu in $menus )
+    <p><strong>$menu.getAttributeValue("name")</strong></p>
+    <ul>
+    #foreach ( $item in $menu.getChildren() )
+      #set ($name = $item.getAttributeValue("name"))
+      <li>#projectanchor($name $item.getAttributeValue("href"))</li>
+    #end
+    </ul>
+  #end
+#end
+
+#macro (getProjectImage)
+  #if ($project.getChild("logo"))
+    <td align="left">
+    <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org"><img src="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif" border="0"/></a>
+    </td>
+    <td align="right">
+    #set ( $logoString = $project.getChild("logo").getAttributeValue("href") )
+    #if ( $logoString.startsWith("/") )
+      <a href="$project.getAttributeValue("href")"><img src="$relativePath$logoString" alt="$project.getChild("logo").getText()" border="0"/></a>
+    #else
+      <a href="$project.getAttributeValue("href")"><img src="$relativePath/$logoString" alt="$project.getChild("logo").getText()" border="0"/></a>
+    #end
+    </td>
+  #else
+    <td colspan="2">
+    <a href="http://jakarta.apache.org"><img src="http://jakarta.apache.org/images/jakarta-logo.gif" align="left" border="0"/></a>
+    </td>
+  #end
+#end
+
+#macro (header)
+  <html>
+    <head>
+      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
+  
+      #set ($authors = $root.getChild("properties").getChildren("author"))
+      #foreach ( $au in $authors )
+        #metaauthor ( $au.getText() $au.getAttributeValue("email") )
+      #end
+  
+      <title>$project.getChild("title").getText() - $root.getChild("properties").getChild("title").getText()</title>
+    </head>
+  
+    <body bgcolor="$bodybg" text="$bodyfg" link="$bodylink">    
+      <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0">
+        <!-- TOP IMAGE -->
+        <tr>
+          #getProjectImage()
+        </tr>
+      </table>
+      <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="4">
+        <tr><td colspan="2">
+          <hr noshade="" size="1"/>
+        </td></tr>
+        
+        <tr>
+          <!-- LEFT SIDE NAVIGATION -->
+          <td valign="top" nowrap="true">
+          #makeProject()
+          </td>
+          <td align="left" valign="top">
+#end
+
+#macro (footer)
+          </td>
+        </tr>
+
+        <!-- FOOTER -->
+        <tr><td colspan="2">
+          <hr noshade="" size="1"/>
+        </td></tr>
+        <tr><td colspan="2">
+          <div align="center"><font color="$bodylink" size="-1"><em>
+          Copyright &#169; 2000-2002, Apache Software Foundation
+          </em></font></div>
+        </td></tr>
+      </table>
+    </body>
+  </html>
+#end
diff --git a/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/velocity.properties b/proposal/myrmidon/src/xdocs/velocity.properties
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+file.resource.loader.path=src/xdocs/stylesheets
+velocimacro.library=templates.vm