[wicked] Re: Horde Documentation Application

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Jason M. Felice" <jfelice at cronosys.com>:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:45:25AM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Strangely enough, at today I'm about to start an API to render an
> application's data to static HTML (for purpose of creating a browseable
> static CD version of a site).  Is there intersection here?  I'm talking
> about rendering all public objects as full pages, and you're talking
> about rendering a particular object as inline HTML or docbook.

Yeah, that sounds like intersection. If your API allows to in-/exclude
navigation elements, to request certain renderers, and you leave the HTML
header and footer generation to the application calling this API, we are
set.

Jan.

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