[Scrollkeeper-devel] Serving docs with SK

[Bob S. <bo...@sc...>]

> From: Dan Mueth <d-...@uc...>
> > 
> > Thanks for clarifying.  The application for ScrollKeeper I
> > have in mind is not using a browser directly, but serving
> > doc content with an HTTP server like Apache.  There are
> > several ways to use XML on a server (AxKit, Cocoon), so
> > using the XML Content List will be fine in that context.
> > The server can also convert content to HTML if it needs
> > to.  That approach can make ScrollKeeper-listed docs
> > available to any browser.  
> 
> This is a great idea. I've been thinking that the servers on the Net would
> be primarily be talking to help browser clients on the desktop and that
> the servers would just serve as metadata databases.  But coupling this
> with some conversion filters (SGML->HTML, SGML->PDF, SGML->PS, man->HTML,
> SGML->audio?, etc.) and giving it a very slick interface allows you to
> create a very nice help browser web application. For people with good
> internet connections, this would be a very useful tool.  It also gives you
> the benefit that you don't have to download an entire document since the
> server is converting the document to HTML - you just download the pages
> you read.  Also, any project, organization, company, etc. could use it
> with their own particular set of documents.  This would be a very good
> thing to pursue IMO.

Glad you think it is a good idea. I plan to pursue it.
That's why I want to make sure there is some flexibility
in accessing the ScrollKeeper data.

bobs

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