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HTML Help "Related Topics" button
- From: Pirjo Tinat <ptinat at yahoo dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:50:25 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: HTML Help "Related Topics" button
- Reply-to: pirjo dot tinat at donesolutions dot com
Hi,
We are developing a single-sourcing project with pdf and HTML Help as
outputs. I would like to have dynamic links in my HTML Help, and I
was thinking of using Related Topics (or See also) -type buttons.
When the user clicks the button, a popup menu appears with topic
headings related to the subject. The help selects the topics based on
keywords. The keywords are indexterms in DocBook and we have
generated a .hkk file.
The input in XML would provide the text written on the button and the
keyword.
The output in HTML would be something like:
<OBJECT
CLASSID="clsid:ADB880A6-D8FF-11CF-9377-00AA003B7A11"
ID="KeywordSearch" TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="Command" VALUE="KLink,MENU">
<PARAM NAME="Button" VALUE="Text:Typical settings">
<PARAM NAME="Font" VALUE="MS Sans Serif,8,0,,">
<PARAM NAME="Item1" VALUE="">
<PARAM NAME="Item2" VALUE="Fluorescence intensity">
</OBJECT>
where "Typical settings" is the text on the button and "Fluorescence
intensity" is the keyword. It should be possible to give several
keywords, if necessary.
I have also seen similar dynamic links with no button, just a link
which also opens a popup menu.
My question is:
- is this kind of functionality already in the DocBook XSL? (we
couldn't find it)
- if there isn't, has anybody implemented anything similar?
- if there is, how should I tag the button information in XML?
(We use Instant Saxon)
Thank you in advance!
Pirjo :-)
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