Re: ghelp links to html

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 00:23 -0500, Adam Sommer wrote:
> Shaun,
> 
>         
>         
>         It's not really anything we've ever found a good 
>         solution for, unfortunately.  And this problem
>         has been a thorn in people's sides for at least
>         as long as I've been around.
>         
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  I was wondering if there is currently any
> documentation on ghelp links (other than [1])?

Here's (I think) the original email from jrb:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2001-September/msg00000.html

>   I did some grepping through the yelp source, but didn't find very
> much.  That really doesn't mean an awful lot seeing as how I don't
> know very much C.  
> 
> I've had a couple of ideas on how to "translate" ghelp links to html,
> but none of them are very good.  One idea of recently had, and I don't
> know that much about XML and XSLT, is that really all that's needed is
> an XSLT processor that understands ghelp URI's.  Other than yelp that
> is :-).  If that's the case than in theory it shouldn't bee too hard
> to extend an existing processor to understand them. 
> 
> Of course it's usually a long road from idea to implementation. 

The code part is probably not the hardest part.  Figuring
out how to make it Just Work without lots of fiddling is
the hard part.  If you get a grand idea for that, tell me.
I can do code.

--
Shaun