Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] questions, questions

[Greg F. <gf...@ho...>]

On Nov 30, 10:08am, Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] questions, questions
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:59:55PM -0200, Ali Abdin wrote:
> > ...
> > You just contradicted yourself and confused me. If the XML is a purely
> > internal data structure, why is Nautilus reading it?
>
> The way how it works is that XML files are exported from Scrollkeeper
> to the browser. The main Content List (where every entry is a different
> doc), the TOCs of each doc and the combination of the two (called the
> Extended Content List) are all XML files. Apart from that everything Ali
> wrote is valid (about the availability of the XML parsers on various
> platforms, Gnome, Nautilus etc).

Does the browser receive a ptr to the contents of the file,
ptr to the filename, ptr to an internal XML-based data struct,
or something else?

Or put a different way - is there a spec available for the public API?

thx.

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