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RE: Help project structure
- From: "Bradford, Denis" <denisb at rational dot com>
- To: 'Norman Walsh' <ndw at nwalsh dot com>, David Cramer <dcramer at broadjump dot com>
- Cc: Maggie Strevell <maggie at ssinc dot com>,"Bradford, Denis" <denisb at rational dot com>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 09:34:26 -0500
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: RE: Help project structure
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh
> The experimental chunking stuff that I have never finished writing was
> intended to make it easier to tell what nodes to chunk. The idea was
> you list all the chunks in a separate file:
>
> chunk.data
> <section id="foo"/>
> <section id="bar"/>
> ...
>
> and a node becomes a chunk if and only if it has an entry in the chunk
> file.
>
> Maintaining the chunk file would be an extra headache, but
> it'd give full
> control without having to deal with...
Now you're talking. IMHO (and as a sometime help writer), using an external
control file to manage the TOC is not a headache, but a Good Thing, and it's
the way many help system are authored.
Denis