Rich wrote:
An enhanced hc.exe that output XML would be great. I say XML and not HTML because you can always write a style sheet transformation for the XML to display it as nice HTML. If it was XML, then eventually the help system in FractInt could be updated to consume the XML for the integrated help.
hm, so we can leave out the interim step of enhancing hc to output xml, since once it proves possible to retain all important informations in xml, it'll be a run-just-once conversion.. i'd rather output src files from an xml using an xsl than vice versa.. it should be easy to make an xsl produce helpdefs.h, as well as xhtml doc & help with embedded mathml.. until fractint is able to consume the xml help source, there will be need for xml to src or hlp transformation.. is the help still integrated in win32 executable? and is the help integrated in xfractint version? or do they both use a standalone fractint.hlp?
I have some notes from Noel Giffin on converting the *.src files to HTML since he did it for the Spanky web site. If you want to start working on hc.cpp to enhance it for XML output, I can post his notes back to the list.
any additional insight over the help src format is welcome.. /charlie/