Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] questions, questions

[David M. <dme...@lu...>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:59:55PM -0200, Ali Abdin wrote:
> XML is just the file format that ScrollKeeper uses to store its own "data".
> Wether GNOME and KDE have an XML browser is irrelevant. The fact is,
> ScrollKeeper could have used its own non-standard file format, or it could
> have used the easily parsable XML file format (there are tons of XML parses on
> almost all platforms, and it beats creatign your own parser for the format).
> ScrollKeeper uses libxml to do its own parsing, so that does limit your
> choices (but libxml is cross-platform, doesn't depend on any other libraries
> (although it is part of the GNOME platform), and it is written in C (meaning
> you can create wrapper APIs in other languages)).
> 
> GNOME has a file-manager called Nautilus (in development), in this file
> manager there is a 'Help Sidebar'. This sidebar presents the documents
> installed on the system to the user. Sun submitted a patch to make it utilize
> the scrollkeeper XML file.
> 
> When you select an item in this Help Sidebar, /then/ the Help Browser starts
> up and displays the document (based on the document URI).

You just contradicted yourself and confused me. If the XML is a purely
internal data structure, why is Nautilus reading it?

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