Encyclopedia Wishlists

[Trent Shipley]

How much you pay me?

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    That too is a good idea, but I'll have to think about how much work it 
would be.  

Hmmm.

I could re-write the thing in TEI or DocBook where you have an actual index 
SGML element, that would make indexing pretty easy after the first 
maintenance pass.  That would mean converting to DocBook ... that can be done 
90% with PERL, maybe XSLT.  Once index tags are put in they can be 
automatically extracted.

Browsers are supposed to be able to combine arbitrary XML + CSS style 
instructions these days, but I don't know how many really do that.

Then there is the problem of whether I can get Apache|IIS to do PHP|ASP with 
*.docbk when I have no direct control over the HTTP server.

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Bottom line, I'm *not* going to do that in HTML without using a RDBMS.

Sorry.

> OTOH, I think the Encyclopedia should have an "index", and an incomplete
> index - with links to items that have an entry, and void for those that
> haven't - might be a good substitute for the wish list...