Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] document list

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

On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:43:57AM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, David Merrill wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the recommended way to get a list of documents? The contents
> > list and extended contents list are not a list of documents -- the
> > same document is often listed more than once in separate sections.
> >
> > I'm trying to generate all my web pages with xslt, so I'm looking for
> > a way to extract a list of documents, sorted, and write out html. I'm
> > doing okay so far learning xslt, but there doesn't seem to be a way to
> > do this without a clever hack, and I would rather find a more
> > straightforward way.
> 
> Hmm.. We don't have any files containing each document exactly once which
> is exported for use by other applications.  I hadn't thought of a need for
> it before you suggested this one.
> 
> You could work around it by extracting a unique list from the contents
> list. It sounds like this is what you are doing. The alternate would be to
> modify ScrollKeeper to keep this data in another XML file and then export
> the information.  If we think many applications will need the list, then
> this is the better approach.  If you actually want to use it soon, this
> would mean churning out a 0.2.1 release.  It would not need too much
> changing to roll it into 0.3.0.

I found a way. I just have an XSL stylesheet that does a sort on the
documents, then drops duplicates.

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