[Xapian-discuss] Xapian documentation

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:24:06AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> > The FAQ can obviously link into the manual as well; better, the FAQ
> > could be part of the manual (this is what we should have done with
> > Zap) so it's distributed in the tarball.
> 
> At least while releases are reasonably regular that makes sense.  If
> they become less frequent, we can always update the manual between
> code releases anyhow.

By this I mean "update the manual in the release tarball" - obviously we
can easily update the web copy more often!

> I should have a script somewhere which can do most of the drudge work
> for you, though I don't seem to be able to find it right now.  The
> current wiki actually contains the results of trying it out ages ago,
> e.g. here's an automated conversion of an old version of the "overview"
> page:
> 
> http://wiki.xapian.org/XapianOverview
> 
> I wouldn't be suprised if someone else has written a better convertor.

Aha, I found it:

http://www.oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/patches/HTML2MoinMoin.py

I believe I hacked it up from code from here:

http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HtmlConverter

Cheers,
    Olly