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27 Apr 2024 01:55:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Documentation Migration  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 22 Jan 2009 11:07:41
Message: <497899cd$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:21:57 -0400, Jim Holsenback wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:497808fa@news.povray.org...
>> The challenge isn't just exporting to a format to import to Wiki (what
>> you suggest is where I started on it myself), but also to export
>> modifications/updates put in the Wiki back into the povdoc format.  If
>> you strip the povdoc tags from the file (which seemed to me to be
>> necessary to use the xml format), then you can't easily re-insert them
>> when you dump the pages again.
> 
> not stripped but wrapped in comments ..... wiki processes ALOT of html
> tags but not all so I've had to come up with what I consider a wiki
> equivilant in a few cases. The input side documents are just html stub
> files wrapped in a bit of wiki markup.

That's a good way of handling it.  Cue discussion from p.o-t about the 
xkcd cartoon about the guy who got locked out of his apartment and tried 
everything except ringing the doorbell to get his roommate's attention....

>> That's why a plugin seems like a better approach.  If the wiki
>> preserves those formatting tags, then they can be re-exported.  The
>> tags themselves are used for things like linking sections to the TOC
>> and the index.
> 
> yes and chm (windows help) indexing, keyword building (for searching)
> .....

Yep, and those are big ones. :-)

Jim


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