You mean something like this? http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/gsoc2010/doc/content/ch01.html
That happens to be a GSOC project that Kasun Gajasinghe is
working on right now :-) (Note: I'm his gsoc mentor)
Each page in the webhelp is a single html page. The toc and
search tabs are divs. There are some interesting problems Kasun had to
address. For example, when you go from page to page using the Next button or
crossreferences, you want the toc to preserve its state. So Kasun stores the
state of the toc in a cookie and restores it when you get to the next page.
Likewise with the search. If you did a search and click on a link in the
results, you still want to see the same results on a new page. With all that
going on, performance is an issue for large docs. We're using the Definitive
Guide as our test case for that and have gotten things working pretty well
considering the size of the document: http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/gsoc2010/defguideout/content/ch01.html
The code is in subversion on the webhelp branch if you want to
play with it.
Currently, Kasun is working on adding stemming and Chinese and
Japanese support to the search. This is a very challenging portion of the
project, so wish him luck! If anyone has expertise in the stemming or in
tokenizing CJKV, we'd love to hear from you :-)
Btw., you may also be interested in the website customization,
which is also a gsoc project and similarly uses a <div> to produce a table
of contents. In the case of website, however, you're content is an instance of a
customized version of the DocBook schema that is optimized for creating
websites.
David
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Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 1:40 PM
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Subject: [docbook-apps] TOC on
every page of DocBook HTML Chunked output
Hello all:
I saw a brief thread about this topic in the list
here, but I still don't understand how this can be easily accomplished.
I am trying to get a persistent TOC to output on
every page of my Chunked DocBook HTML output. Preferably as a DIV
alongside a div of the relevant content.
I guess it would be somewhat like the page header or
footer generated with the standard stylesheets when creating chunked HTML.
Only instead of being at the top or bottom of each page I am looking for it to
appear along the left side, like a navigation bar showing the contents
and of course linking to them.
It seems to me like this is not a unique
request, and someone could be doing this without excessive
customization.
Is there any way to accomplish this using the
standard docbook tools?? (stock stylesheets, xsltproc)
If so I would greatly appreciate a pointer in
the right direction - even if only to some further documentation.
I would really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance!
/Gregorio
