Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] questions, questions

[Ali A. <ali...@au...>]

* Greg Ferguson (gf...@ho...) wrote at 02:57 on 01/12/00:
> 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?

Right now there is no library at all. You have to manually locate and parse
the file ;) The project is still at 0.0.1 for a reason.

Perhaps when there is a library we can have functions to get the ptr to the
filename and a function to return the "internal XML-based data struct" (a.k.a
xmlDocPtr)

You could perhaps also recieve document "fragments" (xmlNodePtr?)

Regards,
Ali