Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
"Rene Rivera" <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> wrote in message news:410B0839.1030106@redshift-software.com...
Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
I'd love synchronization to be automatic but I just don't see how to do it.
It's possible but only if you invert the relation between the frames and the documents. If instead of making a frameset with the tree and the document you could instead make the document inline the tree frame inside the document page and hence the URL would always be direct (using iframe tag). This might be contrary to one of the intrusion principles, but it would solve the problem.
I've thought a bit more about this, and it occured to me that if the tree is displayed in the same frame as the content, it's state will not be preserved when a link is followed unless this info is added to the url. So it appears this idea suffers from the same problems as Reece's suggestion.
The question here is: are we going to place the emphasis on auto-generated docs? If we do this, then it should be possible to do something like: <span onclick = "follow_link(1.5)">Chapter 1.5</span> With regards to the page refreshing, this happens when you select "sync" anyway. Is it possible to use '#' instead of '?', so the browsers won't refresh the docs. This might require a standard naming scheme for <a name = "..."/> marked sections, but this would be easier to do if the docs are auto-generated. For older docs that want to keep their HTML structure but move over to the treeview control, it should be easy to do if: 1. They are compatible with XHTML (i.e. they can be loaded in an XML client and manipulated via an XSLT stylesheet, e.g. using xsltproc). NOTE: This should be trivial if the HTML has been run through htmltidy. 2. The section format follows a regular pattern, e.g. h1 elements for level 1, h2 for level 2, etc. This would allow you to: 1. Insert and generate the treeview control by making a pass over the hN tags. 2. Clean up sections of the form: <a name = "..."/><hN>...</hN> Issues would be: 1. Do we remove the ToC provided in the HTML doc (can we detect and remove/use it?) 2. Have we detected the document structure correctly? 3. Other issues I've missed. Regards, Reece Dunn _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger