Re: top node in html cross references

> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:47:48 +0100
> From: Stepan Kasal <[email protected]>
> 
> The manual says: "For HTML output, each file contains one node"
> The above suggestion makes makeinfo to keep this rule better.
> Or should we delete this sentence from the manual?

I agree with what Karl did: update the manual.

> > There are complications here, and we've hit them before.  There may be
> > no Top node, or it could have a name other than "Top".  I think these
> > problems make any special handling of Top very difficult.  Given that
> > the benefits are (IMHO) small, I don't recommend that.
> 
> It seems that you are proposing to remove the first exception ("Top" to
> "index.html") instead of adding the second one ("Index" to "index_.html").

I meant that Top handling is sufficiently complicated already, so I'd
suggest to leave it alone and not complicate it any more.

> In case there is no top node, no index.html should be created. ]

I don't think this is possible or desirable.  Web browsers expect
index.html.

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