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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: OT: Searching HTML
I don't think it's OT :-) At some point I will also need to have a self-contained search feature on chunked html pages where I won't be able to use the search tools that require something on the server side <http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools.html> and neither HTML Help nor Javahelp are options (would that they were!). I'd considered taking some Javascript search dohicky that hacking it into the xsls (like this one: http://pascal.dynamic-core.net/greym/archives/00000014.php). There are commercial apps that parse existing html files and add the search too (I think it's pretty much the same thing--generating an index for the javascript to use): http://www.devahelp.com/devasearch.htm. Manually running this on the already generated html isn't attractive to me tho. Also, I doubt the Javascript approach can be made to work with multibyte languages. I hadn't noticed the applet based search tools, but now that Jirka mentiones it, it looks like a promising way to go: http://www.siteforum.com/document_center/docfather.manual.pdf Perhaps it can mostly be done with post-processing of the html files after all. At this point, I haven't done more than a few google searches and won't need to solve the problem for some time. Please let me know what ends up working for you. Thanks, David > -----Original Message----- > From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 9:40 AM > To: Kraa de Simon > Cc: 'docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org' > Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: OT: Searching HTML > > > Kraa de Simon wrote: > > > We would like to be able to search the HTML files generated > by the DocBook > > stylesheets. > > > > Anyone know how this can be done? > > > > Is this also possible if the files are on a CD instead of a website? > > If you know that target users will have Windows, you can generate HTML > Help from DocBook. HTML Help is format used for on-line help in many > Windows applications including Windows itself. HTML Help contains HTML > pages and additional panes with ToC, index and full-text search. > Starting from Windows 98 HTML Help viewer is standard part of Windows > and you can also redistribute viewer on your CD. > > There is also Java-based JavaHelp with similar capabilities, but it's > significantly slower and not so user-friendly as HTML Help. > > I saw also some Java-applet based search engines targeted for CD-ROM > distributed collections of HTML pages. > > Jirka > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Jirka Kosek > e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz > http://www.kosek.cz >
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