Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 22:51:45 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: troubleshooting tree revisited Message-ID: <20001203225144.A4078@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20001130164838.A42727@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:48:39PM -0500 References: <20001130164838.A42727@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:48:39PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> jkh suggested a nice file that contained the decision tree, and that
> could be parsed to generate HTML. That's a great idea. I'm
> completely unqualified to do it properly. (I'm qualified to do it
> suckily, but I don't have time to make something that sucks.) If
> you're capable and willing to do this, please stop me now.
Unless I misunderstand what you want, I think DocBook's FAQ support
would do what you want. So you end up with something like:
Question 1: What do you want to do?
Answer:
Install FreeBSD? Go to question 2.
Configure FreeBSD? Go to question 12.
Install an application? Go to question 37.
Configure an installed application? Go to question 68.
Question 2: Have you got a FreeBSD CD?
Answer:
Yes? Go to question 3.
No? Go to question 4.
...
If that's the sort of thing you want to do then I'd recommend writing it
in DocBook using the <question> and <answer> elements. See the FAQ for
detailed examples.
Don't worry about how you then put each question on a page of its own,
that's something that the stylesheets can do (and will do, given
appropriate thumping by me).
Does that solve the problem?
N
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