Re: [sc-dev] [Comments?]XML doc? Fwd: html doc

[Scott Wilson <sdwilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 13, 2004, at 5:04 AM, James McCartney wrote:
> Well currently if you have a help file open you can not only select 
> and execute the examples directly, but you can also edit the values or 
> change a WhiteNoise to a PinkNoise, etc, and see what happens. If the 
> docs were in HTML you couldn't do that. You'd have to copy them 
> somewhere else to edit them. Or switch to the HTML source and edit 
> that - not very interactive - and if the text is syntax colored there 
> will be so many tags embedded in it that it will be nearly impossible 
> to edit. You'd need a tool to generate the html from a third 
> representation.
What I'd been working on converted an HTML file to an 
NSAttributedString. Could be edited just as well as RTF. It then parsed 
that back to HTML when you saved. There were some diffficulties (and 
probably a need for a small number of conventions to be followed) but I 
don't think those were insurmountable. Syntax coloration could be 
either saved (doesn't matter since you're not editing html) or done 
when the document is opened, according to a custom tag, or by looking 
for all text in Monaco, etc...

S.