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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Why is there so muchco-dependencyinBoost?Is there anything to be done about it?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-06 13:29:35

John Maddock wrote:
>>> 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.