[Linkbat-devel] Re: about Glossary pages

[James M. <lin...@ji...>]

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 00:36, Feng Xie wrote:
> If it has not much to do with XML parsing (I am not familiar with XML), I
> can take it.

I will keep you in mind. It does require a little experience wth XML.

> >What I think we should do now in terms of the static code for the glossary
> >is
> >define the actual mechanism of how the page is displayed. I think the best
> >thing is to a have a new window pop up. The link is something like
> >
> >/cgi-bin/display_glossary.pl?word_to_define
> >
> >where the display_glossary.pl simply creates the framework for the page
> > and inserts the contents of an already created glossary page. Something
> > similar would also be done for the command glossary and file glossary.
> > The set of glossary files could be in a seperate directory what the
> >display_glossary.pl
> >knows about and knows what file to load based on "word_to_define".
>
> Yes,  using display_glossary.pl instead of display.pl is faster and makes
> the codes easier to maintain. But the problem is that by this way, people
> who try to download the site can't not see the glossary pages because they
> are generated dynamically.  Of course, if you don't think it's important
> for those downloading the site to see everything in static pages, just
> ignore it.

Well, the glossary pages do not necessarily need to be generated dynamically. 
We could create them in advance and then display_glossary.pl just creates the 
framework and inserts the *completed* glossary page. 

What I would like is the ability to download a complete set of pages and have 
as much info as possible, include glossary, commands and files. The user 
could have a choice between a set that is installed as a web server or 
stand-alone.

However, we should not loose track of the primary goal here and that is to 
save as much time as possible loading the files on the Internet. 

> I am thinking about developing the parse_page.pl into a tool which is used
> to generate the corresponding ebook(totally consists of  static pages, like
> stuffs for CCNA,CCNP etc) of the linux-tutorial site. That way, everytime
> major changes happen on the site, you can use the tool to generate a zipped
> package (with versions of course) and put it to the download page.  Just a
> idea.

That is definately one of the goals. I would like to a tool set that will 
display the material dynamically, create static pages and create a document 
that you convert to PDF, DocBook or some other similar format. 

Regards,

Jim

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