Pete- Thursday, August 22, 2013, 10:21:57 AM, you wrote:
> I did indeed and thanks for the link. Even though I didn't understand your > instructions, I was able to download the dictionary editor stack and look > forward to checking out how the dictionary works and its structure. Yeah, good luck with that. Bjornke understands that stuff better than most folks, and he can probably chime in here with a rant of his own. For my part, all I wanted to do was edit/create some doc files for the engine changes I had made, and I got Mark Waddingham to post the editor the team uses because a) I wasn't going to edit the xml by hand, b) I didn't have a way of viewing the results of editing the xml, and c) I don't know the xml format. The format isn't documented anywhere, there are xml tags like <glossary> that don't seem to be editable, but somehow they're in there and I don't know what they do. The xml format itself seems pretty bad, but it's tightly coupled to the doc files that get generated from it, so it's not likely to change. Meanwhile Bjornke has come up with a way to convert the doc files into a SQLite database, and that makes it faster, more maintainable, easier to use, and more flexible. Unfortunately his converter doesn't work on linux, but the resulting database is cross-platform. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode