revDocWiki

[Timothy Miller]

Well, there seems to be a reasonable amount of enthusiasm for this 
hypothetical project. I understand that someone from Rev peruses the 
list. I don't know if anyone on the list frequently talks with Rev 
management. Rev might be wondering if this idea will remain vaporware 
forever.

I'm not sure if it can be done without Rev's support. For example, 
are the onboard docs copyrighted? In any case, Rev's support and 
assistance, even if no money changes hands, could make the difference 
between success and failure.

Maybe someone should submit the concept to bugzilla as an enhancement 
request, and post the BZ item number on the list. The number of votes 
it gets could be persuasive.


Tim

>Chipp Walters wrote:
>
>>  Dan Shafer wrote:
>>>  The docs are already in XML. Jerry Daniels has written a parser for
>>>  them that gets used in his Transcript Gadget.
>>
>>  I should mention the parser Jerry modified (and I did too, and even
>>  perhaps Mr. Sanke as well) originated from Richard Gaskin's generous
>>  contribution for his help stack for MC. Thanks Richard!
>
>My pleasure.  And thanks for the thoughtful mention.
>
>I'm a big fan of both XML and the Rev object model, and I'm rather 
>addicted to the Dictionary. My revised Dictionary shell attempts to 
>deliver the best of both worlds:
>
>XML is a great format for authoring, as it allows the individual 
>topics to be moved from team member to team member for authoring and 
>review. But as we've seen, indexing and parsing them on the fly is, 
>well, suboptimal. :)
>
>It's hard to beat Rev's native object model for efficiently 
>traversing a body of work like this.  Even with nearly 1500 entries 
>the mcDictionary loads about as quickly as the XML-based one that 
>ships with Rev, but is significantly faster for moving 
>document-to-document, since you're only going card-to-card rather 
>than loading files from disk and parsing XML CDATA on the fly.
>
>Jerry's done a wonderful job extending the mcDictionary stack, 
>adding a lot of geat new functionality and a nifty Rossi-esque look.
>
>Since it only takes less than a minute to import the data into the 
>stack, I hope one day we can see that incorporated into Rev's 
>automated build process and have it shipped with the product. 
>Jerry's is certainly worthy.
>
>--
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Managing Editor, revJournal
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