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Re: OT: Searching HTML
- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- To: Kraa de Simon <Simon dot de dot Kraa at services dot fujitsu dot com>
- Cc: "'docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org'" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 16:39:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: OT: Searching HTML
- References: <C1EBEEBBB842D411B4120000949A1F580201A48F@wwmessd135>
Kraa de Simon wrote:
> We would like to be able to search the HTML files generated by the DocBook
> stylesheets.
>
> Anyone know how this can be done?
>
> Is this also possible if the files are on a CD instead of a website?
If you know that target users will have Windows, you can generate HTML
Help from DocBook. HTML Help is format used for on-line help in many
Windows applications including Windows itself. HTML Help contains HTML
pages and additional panes with ToC, index and full-text search.
Starting from Windows 98 HTML Help viewer is standard part of Windows
and you can also redistribute viewer on your CD.
There is also Java-based JavaHelp with similar capabilities, but it's
significantly slower and not so user-friendly as HTML Help.
I saw also some Java-applet based search engines targeted for CD-ROM
distributed collections of HTML pages.
Jirka
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