[Ohrrpgce] Two related questions

[Bob the Hamster]

On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 03:35:25PM -0400, Mike Caron wrote:
> First off, will HssEd ever be GPLed? I can think of a few improvements
> to it (many of which involve fixing that über-annoying compiling bug).
> Amongst these would be support to read the XML docs directly.

I can try to find the source, but it is written for Delphi 4, and 
requires an assortment of third-party controls. With some work and 
patience, it could probably be ported to freepascal/lazarus

Anyway, if I can find it, I will definitely GPL it, but I don't think it 
will be in a compileable state.

There are only two important things that HssEd does. One, it provides 
context sensitive quick help, and two, it provides quick built-in 
compile.

It might be more productive (and fun) to re-implement those two features 
as a plug-in for some existing code-editor (although I don't know a 
suitable code editor off the top of my head.)

> And, thus, my second question: Will you be including the XML version
> with Custom in Rusalka, or will you just include the HTML version? I
> think that if we can upgrade HssEd to read the XML, we don't need the
> HTML version anymore. Here's the current uses:
>
> ~ HssEd: See above.
> ~ Manually reading it: Modern browsers can apply the XSL Stylesheet to
> the XML data, so there's no need to have an HTML version. For those
> who use old browsers, I say you direct them to http://getfirefox.com
> ~ Website: Two words: Wikiplot.xsl and the previous point
> ~ Other programs that use plotdictionary.html: I don't think they exist.
> 
> So, in short, plotdictionary.html is, in my opinion, obsolete and unnecissary.

Ooh. I completely forgot about uploading the xml to the website. I will 
have to do that.

As for the plotdictionary.html file, I agree it is obsolete for 
everything but HssEd... although I love the fact that the XML format 
makes it so absurdly easy to generate the html file anyway.

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James