Re: Gnome Help Browser

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:07:52PM +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:51:00AM -0400, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 

I think Sasha is right here. A help browser needs to understand what
do with a "gnome-help:foo", "man:foo" or "info:food" URL, or linking
between and among documents will not work. You're right that if we
do gnome-db2htl3 right it will output valid html, but the browser
still needs the additional ability to know that when it sees a GNOME
help-related url it needs to hand it off to the help system.

Cheers,
-- 
John Fleck
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