Re: Yelp document chunking

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sat, 2003-05-17 at 21:27, Shaun McCance wrote:
[good explanation of the gnarly current chunking behavior snipped]
> 
> 
> I'm working on a set of changes to the stylesheets to change this
> behavior.  However, I'd like to get input on exactly why Yelp chunks the
> way it does.  The only reason I can see is that it allows you to choose
> the level of granularity to browse at.  I don't see that as a good
> enough reason to introduce all these problems, though.
> 

I'm not sure why it chunks the way it does. My suspicion is that it's
just a function of the way Sander built off of Norman Walsh's original
chunking code, rather than an intentional decision. Sander?

> What I would prefer is that we just make a choice of which types of
> nodes get chunked (chapter, sect1, sect2, etc.) and do things that way. 
> If a sect 1 contains sect2's, then the sect1 document will have whatever
> introductory text it contains, and then links for its subsection.  This
> is the approach taken for the GNOME User's Guide (multiple-page version)
> on www.gnome.org/learn.
> 
> Simplifying the chunking mechanism and navigational model will allow us
> to make a lot of internal linking stuff work more cleanly, and will make
> it easier to rethink part of the interface (as per, for example, much of
> the discussion on bug #91610).
> 

Is it reasonable to have the chunked atom be one level below the root
element of the doc? So an article would be chunked at the sect1 level,
while a book would be chunked at the chapter level? Is that the sort of
thing you're thinking?

Cheers,
John
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