Re: DevMo gets automatically-generated license text and next/prev/toc links

fantasai <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.documentation
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> fantasai wrote:
> 
>> Also, <link rel="next/prev/toc"> generate navigation links in the 
>> content,
>> so if you are writing a documentation series, you can <link> them up and
>> the DevMo build system will expose those links in the body HTML.
> 
> Does this mean that you are going to style these metadata elements in a 
> way that they become normal navigation without providing normal 
> navigation in the document? Or is there a template parser that looks for 
> LINK elements, takes over the contents and puts them in the document in 
> a much more appropriate UL, LI element construct?

Actually, the <link> is the much more appropriate construct. It's just not
the much more practical construct.

The wrapper code calls a function that parses <link> and <meta> elements
and hands all the metadata back to the wrapper in a useable datastruct.
The wrapper can then pull out info about the links from the datastruct
and generate appropriate HTML in the <body>. The <link> and <meta>
elements are left intact.

You can see what happens by looking at the /about/meta page: all the
<body> content before the <h1> and after the last <pre> is generated by
the wrapper.

~fantasai
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