Re: Gnome Help Browser

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:51:00AM -0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:30:29AM +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > The final option for displaying results is the easy one: assume the user
> > has a web browser of their own choice available. Then we just need to
> > provide a wrapper so that a call to display GNOME help will ensure the
> > document is already in html/css form and pass the appropriate URI to the
> > browser. For a simple solution that doesn't require too much extra
> > software, this is probably the way to go.
> > 
> 
> There is also a problem with links: if you use just a web browser,
> then the cross-linking between docs (given by <ulink type="help"
> url="gnome-help:nautilus">, or something like this) will likely to be
> broken, because a web browser know nothing about gnome-help
> protocol. Or this needs to be solved when doing docbook->html
> transformation. Same problem with <xref>'s

That is not a problem for the browser, it's a problem for the db2html
program. Using db2html means that with a certain xslt set, all the
utput will be valid html that can be loaded into any browser.

Malcolm

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