[wicked] Re: Horde Documentation Application

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Karsten Fourmont <fourmont at gmx.de>:

>> Alternately, the "book" application could be entirely seperate, 
>> using the new
>> Horde application/browse API to select anything at all - so you 
>> could build a
>> "book" of some wiki pages, some files from Gollem, an appendix of a 
>> task list
>> from Nag...
>
> Cool idea. Linking to various horde items would be really great. But I don't
> think this would require a new "book" application (though this still might be
> an option).
>
> I'd rather go for adding the general possibility of linking to a 
> horde item to
> wicked (or at least to wicked book pages).
>
>> This would make it more complicated to do docbook/pdf type generation,
>> but very flexible overall...
>
> I think it's worth the effort: we could enhance the application/browse API to
> have kind of a "renderTo" api call. So you could retrieve a task list 
> rendered
> as "inline" HTML or docbook-XML. Not all apps would have to support all
> rendering formats of
> course.

And the book generator could be smart enough to take a different rendering
method from the app and convert the result to the requested format if the
app doesn't support it natively.

Jan.

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