Re: docs chunking status

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

I knwo a little bit about stylesheets - but I do not know how on-the-fly
generation of html works; so far, I only played with stylesheets which
do whole-document-to-multifile-html conversion. Eric or Sander could
probably be of more help. But if they are not available, I could try. 

Sasha


On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 11:55, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> lör 2002-04-13 klockan 15.39 skrev John Fleck:
> 
> > 
> > The KDE solution has been to parse the entire document once and hold
> > all the chunks in memory, then hand them off to the help browser when
> > requested. I'm not smart enough to know whether the right place to do
> > this is Yelp or a libraryized gnome2-db2html, though it seems to me
> > that if we made gnome2-db2html into a library and did it that way, we
> > would retain the ability for other browsers to use it.
> > 
> > The KDE approach essentially creates a single document in memory with
> > delimiters setting apart each chunk (this is done with their
> > stylesheet). This has the added advantage that
> > you can create the document at build time and have what amounts too a
> > pre-built cache, and you also can save it as a file the first time the
> > user looks at the help file for your cache.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've currently moved in the gnome-db2html3.c file into yelp and
> currently call it yelp-db2html.c (not commited yet). This can off course
> be broken out just as easily and into a library. I'm going to do the
> same for man and info. The other solution, while good for nautilus is
> kinda of sucky for a help-only browser.
> 
> So, I'm really lame when it comes to these docbook stylesheets, can
> someone with knowledge about this help me fix this so that you can cache
> the chunks in some way. John do you have the knowledge needed to do
> something similar to what KDE does?
> 
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal
>