Re: jrb help: XML & HTML

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, David Merrill wrote:

> That sounds like the right approach. I'm working on a proof-of-concept
> implementation in python that I'm calling ScrollServer, and it is
> already serving the ScrollKeeper documents. I'm using the medusa web
> application platform, but it could be moved to something else pretty
> easily.
>
> I expect I'll have something usable well within the 2.0 timeframe,
> although it certainly won't be as far along as the standard help
> browser. Still, it will allow a user to get to the help using lynx. In
> fact, it *already* lets the user get to the scrollkeeper database with
> lynx. Not bad for a day's hacking, huh? ;-) Especially since I've
> never coded python before.
>
> I still have lots of functionality to do, of course. All it does now
> is present the TOC and process (and cache) sgml -> html which is then
> served as well. But at least I will be able to work alongside the
> other efforts and provide a way for people without a gui to still gain
> the advantages of ScrollKeeper.

Wow - That is great!  One nifty use for this would be to put it on
www.gnome.org and allow anybody with a web browser and internet connection
to browse the TOC and read all the GNOME docs.  Naturally, a lot of other
projects could benefit from ScrollServer as well.

You might mention that you started this project on the ScrollKeeper
mailing list.  I know others have expressed an interest in developing and
using this sort of a tool on that list in the past.

Dan