[Lazarus] wikiconvert to fpdoc format using outdated structure for xml generation

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Jan 26 20:03:23 CET 2015


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 07:33:44PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > > i have try to makes chm from information in the wiki. wikiget gets the information out of the wiki and wikiconvert should convert it to the right format for fpdoc.
> 
> A chm is basically a bunch of html files zipped. Therefore it is
> better to create the chm from the html, not from wiki to fpdoc to html
> to chm.

It is an indexed and crossreferenced archive of html.

So if you want the chm to reference other CHMs, going the fpdoc route is way
better.

> 
> >[...]
> > I don't understand why Wiki2FPDocConvert doesn't do it right in the first place.
> > The fpdoc format has been the same since day 1.
> 
> I asked you 18th Feb 2012 what could be wrong with the xml. Apparently
> we both didn't see the missing "-description". ;)
> 
> But it will not work, because fpdoc currently only shows descriptions of
> units, it does not show topics without units. This would require an
> extension to fpdoc. For example Michael suggested:

I already asked and tested, it does show topics attached to a package, and
they are allowed to be in separate XMLs.
 




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