Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Handling relocatable packages

[Laszlo K. <las...@su...>]

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> 
> Second;
> 
> /var/db/master.xml (or whatever it is) should not (contrary to my message)
> handle the grouping of documents in to categories.  By that I mean that
> it shouldn't do
> 
>     <sect>
>       <title>Apps</title>
>         <sect>
>           <title>Xemacs</title>
> 
>           <doc>...</doc>
>           <doc>...</doc>
>           <doc>...</doc>
>         </sect>
> 
>         ...
>     </sect>
> 
> Why?  Because then it's a pain in the backside to have the same document
> appear in multiple categories, as you have to list it twice.  Instead,
> the format should be more like:
> 
>    <doc docid="...">
>      <docinstance .../>
> 
>      <category>Applications</category>
>      <category>Editors</category>
>      <category>Lisp</category>
>    </doc>
> 
> This can then be arranged in to groupings by the same process that generates
> the TOC and Index.
Actually it already works in the first way you described above. And I
don't find it hard at all to manage it:-)

Laszlo