Re: ghelp links to html

["Adam Sommer" <asommer70 gmail com>]

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

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

Thanks for the link.  It's very interesting to go back and see how the documentation system started :-).
 

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.

I did some more examination of the yelp source and it's starting to make more sense.  Since Yelp is using rarian to find the document that contains the section the ghelp uri links to.  I'm just wondering if a XSLT processer that understood a ghelp uri the same way that yelp does could be developed?  

I think that you'd have to have all the docs that you're linking to installed on the system doing the processing, but once the processing is done the files could then be copied to a web server.  The hard part, which may need the most fiddling, might be supporting the different uri schemes from the initial spec  (relative, absolute, and index).  I guess my theory is that if the process places the html files in the same path the links should work.

Just my thought.
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Party On,
Adam