Bernie Cosell wrote:


Hmmm... Since I don't really need 450+ pages of info, but just something akin to a crib sheet of the SQL that sqlite supports (which I'd guess would end up at about 20 pages if it weren't so difficultly-embedded in html files), the option of a fifty dollar book isn't really very useful to me. [BTW: no knock on Mike or on the worth of the book. But: I'm not a beginner [either with Perl, SQL or SQLite] nor do I care hardly at all about SQLite's internals... I just need to know the SQL SQLite implements, and so virtually all of Mike's book is really not going to be of any interest or use to me... I'm just the wrong audience for it].

I guess I'll work harder at getting something readable out of the 'lang.html' pages... It looks like that if I cobble up a little script to take the pages linked out of lang.html and just delete the <table> and <h1> blocks at the start of each page it'll get me just the reference info, and after that a pass through HTMLDOC and I suspect I'll have something more in line of what I was hoping for... I'll report back on how it goes in case anyone cares... tnx!



Bernie,

If you download the source you can build local copies of the HTML files that document SQLite. They are slightly different than those on the website, all the related documentation pages are linked into one file. Simply do a:

./configure --with-tcl=/path/to/your/tcl/
make doc

I then open the file index.html in Firefox. It looks the same as the website, so click documentation and then SQL Syntax. The current page has all the SQL syntax documentation on one HTML page. I simply print the whole thing.

I, too, am a hardcopy guy. I keep the resulting 26 page document "SQL as Understood By SQLite" on my desk beside my computer.

HTH
Dennis Cote

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