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Re: I'll volunteer for the LEGO FAQ
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lugnet.faq
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Sun, 25 Apr 1999 03:33:08 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:
> [...]
> > Plus, some kind of tags at the beginning and ending of each FAQ entry
> > would make parsing it much easier IMO.
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> Makes sense.
Tags at the beginning and end of the file? That just makes processing more
difficult, not easier. More syntax = more work. Less syntax = less work.
I'm looking for a model with a simple but flexible design -- where
individual collections Q&A pairs can be dropped into webpages on-the-fly
with the greatest of ease. Excess tagging just means that the tags have to
be removed before the real info is displayed.
> Lets use HTML. We can always use "lynx -dump" to generate
> plain text from the HTML edition. It is much harder to go
> the other way.
"lynx -dump" -- cool...didn't know about that. It converts <I>xyz</I> to
_xyz_ and handles lots of other stuff. Best thing is, it can work on a
local file and it writes its output to STDOUT. :) Even better yet, it can
handle pure, disembodied HTML markup without the headers and body elements,
even without the file extension being .html, e.g.
lynx -dump -force_html foo.foo
:) !!!
--Todd
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 | | Re: I'll volunteer for the LEGO FAQ
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| Todd: (...) You're right. I hadn't reached the "one entry, one file" idea when I wrote this. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: I'll volunteer for the LEGO FAQ
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| (...) I don't think so. We should rather choose a separator for category levels: Category: [category] / [subcategory depth 1] / ... (...) Makes sense. (...) Lets use HTML. We can always use "lynx -dump" to generate plain text from the HTML edition. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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