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From: Luis Argerich <luis@fu...> - 2003-11-18 09:33

 Warning, may contain PHP alike substance

 I just quickly added a new feature to the code, it"s absolutely beta and 
 experimental and I reallye expect others, specially "visually" gifted 
 developers to enhance this feature and fix it if it"s not working as 
 expected. 
 The basic idea is to generate a WebHelp from a Tiki Structure (Structure = a 
 tree of wiki pages as you know) 
 From the strucctures menu you will see a button to create a webhelp. The 
 webhelps are created in whelp/$name where name is configurable and defaulted 
 to the name of the root of the structure. 
 The generated webhelp is a static representation of the structure with a js 
 tree that can be used to navigate the structure and a search 
 function, print function, history and some other gizmos. 
 I think we can use this to distribute the Tikified Tiki documentation in an 
 usable format for users and since structures can be re-created 
 whenever you want we can also keep an online version in tikiwiki.org 
 I think this has a lot of potential but there"s a lot to improve in the 
 presentation and very raw code I just introduced. 
 I based this in the new model for structures by Chris Holman so it will work 
 with 1.8+ 
 Comments, rants and questions as always will be appreciated.

 Luis

 PS: One to-do is to make the CSS of the webhelp compatible with the default 
 style for the site, in order to do this I think that we must edit the base 
 (.html) files in the lib/tikihelp directory and make them use elements 
 already defined in the style instead of redefining new elements. 
 Blah blah.... 
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