[ZDP] Documentation in text form?

Wed, 24 May 2000 13:23:00 -0700

Cool, I am currently writing a python script to pull down all the
how-tos link by link so I can do something useful with them.  It's
almost done.

I don't know what algorithm the searches you are using use, but there
are SO many times that I type something in that I KNOW is out there,
and I get NO results back.  Even when I *get* results back, all I get
is some funky URL that says NOTHING about the content of the data I
have gotten.  This is especially useless if there's like 100 or so
hits from the search.  What am I to do?  Click through them all to
read and find out if they are what I want?  The results need either a
summary or at least a title of the document.  This should be a trivial 
thing to do.

As far as clicking through too many links, well, I think your concept
of having the yahoo-like interface is very neat, except that it takes
4-5 clicks to get to anything useful, and when you do, it's more of
those darn URLs, which again, are totally useless.  The links need to
have titles and summaries, and it needs to show the information as
soon as possible.  Do you understand what I mean?

Jiva

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:19:25PM +0200, Maik Roeder wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> jiva@devware.com wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to get ALL the documentation/HOW-TOs/TIPS/FAQS in text
> > files someplace?
> 
> At least the FAQ can be see on one page right now.
> 
> http://zdp.zope.org/projects/zfaq/faq/List_Flat
> 
> I have no time to make the other stuff available in the same form,
> but maybe someone else can jump in and help ?
> 
> I have made the tips available in one file on zope.org:
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Members/roeder/tips_in_html
> http://www.zope.org/Members/roeder/tips_in_xml
> 
> You can do the same for How-Tos on Zope.org as well,
> if you adapt this code for the Tips, assuming
> you are a Zope.org member:
> 
> tips_in_html DTML method on zope.org
> 
> <HTML>
> <BODY>
> <dtml-with "PARENTS[-1].SiteIndex">
>  <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('meta_type', 'Tip')">
>  <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('sort_on', 'date')">
>  <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('sort_order', 'reverse')">
>   <!--#with "_(results = searchResults(REQUEST=REQUEST))"-->
> 
> <HR>
> <UL>
> <dtml-in results>
> <dtml-with "getobject(data_record_id_)">
> <LI><A HREF="#<dtml-var url>"><dtml-var title_or_id></A>
> </dtml-with>
> </dtml-in>
> </UL>
> 
> <dtml-in results>
> 
> <dtml-with "getobject(data_record_id_)">
> <A NAME="<dtml-var url>">
> <HR>
> <B><dtml-var title html_quote></B>
> </dtml-with>
> <P>
> <A HREF="http://www.zope.org/<dtml-var SCRIPT_NAME>/<dtml-var url>">
> http://www.zope.org/<dtml-var SCRIPT_NAME>/<dtml-var url>
> </A>
> <P>
> Date: <dtml-var date fmt="Date">
> <P>
> Author: <dtml-var creator html_quote>
> <P>
> <dtml-with "getobject(data_record_id_)">
> <B>Tip:</B>
> <P>
> <dtml-var "_.getitem('tip')">
> <P>
> <B>Details:</B>
> <P>
> <dtml-var "_.getitem('details')">
> <P>
> </dtml-with>
> </dtml-in>
> </dtml-with>
> </dtml-with>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> 
> >  I find the ZDP and Zope search engines to be quite
> > unusable and would like to either stuff them in a database or use grep
> > on them.
> 
> I definitely have to work on this stuff, but I also would
> like to hear how you would like the search to be.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Maik Röder
> 

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