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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Converting docbook-xsl to website-xsl
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 12:02:54AM -0600, David Cramer (Tech Pubs) wrote: > Just to be thorough, I thought I'd mention two other options for > getting a book with a toc pane from docbook (assuming a Windows-only > chm won't meet your needs). > > 1. Generate html help source from docbook and then open the .hhp file > in RoboHELP (commercial, expensive IMO, widows only, no CLI) and > generate Web Help. Web help has a toc pane, index, and search built > in, but RoboHELP isn't cheap (and aside from Web Help, isn't very > good). Yeah I'm not sure that would work, this is for a Unix-only environment :-) > 2. Use a customization layer I experiemented with to generate chm > source and a frameset that uses some java applet stuff that comes with > the HTML Help workshop. This gives you a toc and index pane but no > search. http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/applethelp-demo/ I suspect > you'd have to do some work on the index generation code--currently it > doesn't collapse duplicate entries. Here's the customization layer: > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/docbook/contrib/xsl/applethelp/ > I had updated it recently to work with 1.64.1 of the docbook xsls. > This doesn't require windows except to get the applet stuff from an > installation of the HTML Help workshop (free). To be honest, if you want collapsible menus it shouldn't be hard. Sure, you're talking about a little javascript (which I know some don't like) and CSS to do it dynamically, and then slightly tweaking the <div> tags for the ToC. If I can figure out how to do that I'll let you guys know. I'm an XML newbie (really, I know almost nothing apart from the basic concepts). > An any-browser help-like output that dosen't require eclipse, > robohelp, or any applet stuff would be nice to have in the > distribution. I think building in internationalized search for free > would be tough. Indeed would be nice. I'll do some thinking.
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