Re: [Boost-users] Why is there so much co-dependencyinBoost?Is there anything to be done about it?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Why is there so much co-dependencyinBoost?Is there anything to be done about it?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-06 04:19:39

>> Of these things, the "expand-all" and bigger twiddle targets would
>> likely be among the easier, while the other two would require a lot
>> more work.
>
> These are in fact not too hard.  I'll consider it.
>
> It turns out that I've been sucked in to spending time learning about
> XSLT, XML editors, DocBooK, BoostBook. etc.  So I've
> considered re-formating the serialization documentation in terms
> of BoostBook which would address all he the  above and give
> the serialization library documentation a more up date look
> compatible with the other boost libraries.
>
> BUT - I would lose the navigator - which I'm actually in love with.
>
> What I would really like is an XSLT script which would build
> a free-floating BoostBook Navigator which would navigate
> all the boost book docs. Of course it's usage would be optional.

Nice idea.  Robert: the HTML in your navigator pane looks rather similar to 
the HTML in generated for the Boostbook TOC page, could your scripts be 
injected in without too much change?  If so we would just need to tweak HTML 
generation to produce an extra TOC page along with the frames etc?

BTW I really don't like those tiny graphics either.

Also just noted that docbook can output web help, which looks rather nice: 
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/webhelp/docs/content/ch01.html 
but appears to require Java client side?

John.