Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Index support

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

> My thinking here was that SK would put the index data into an xml data
> structure that was browser-independent, then people's browsers would
> use that data to generate a displayable version of the
> document-specific index, showing up as an appendix to the document. I
> have some ideas about how we might do that for
> GNOME, but I assume others might have other ideas for other platforms,
> and my thinking was that the SK data structure would be a
> platform-neutral xml structure we all could draw on.
This is precisely how it should work.
 
> As an alternative, I suppose, we could have SK just generate a DocBook
> index document for the doc at install time and stick it in the same
> directory as the doc.
I think we need both. We need index associated with every doc and we
also need joint index of several docs or all the docs from the system.
The basis should obviously be separate index for each doc and then joint
indexes can be built on that easily.
 
> So you've have the large systemwide xml data structure containing all
> index data, and a separate index.sgml (or index.xml) that gets stuck
> in the install directory with the doc. Would that work?
Something like this will work definitely and this is how I think it
should be done.

Laszlo