Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Mozilla Site Navigation toolbar hack

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Since the Mozilla folks have removed the site navigation bar in recent
> releases, I dug around until I figured out how to put it back.
> See http://nwalsh.com/hacks/mozilla/
> 
> I've also published a more DocBook-specific toolbar there. I don't
> know if it's a good thing or not, but I like it :-)

Nice. The DocBook-specific version seems especially useful for
navigating through reference documentation like the HTML parameter
reference for the XSL stylesheets:

  http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/index.html

The Reference and Refentry submenus under the Document menu in the
site navigation toolbar provide some nice ways to jump around in the
XSL referenc docs -- the Reference one for jumping between the
groupings of related parameters, and the Refentry one for jumping
right to the page for a specific parameter; if you know the name of
the parameter or even just the letter it starts with, you can just hit
a key to jump to it (for example, hit the "b" key to jump through all
the parameters that start with "b").

If/when they release a Mozilla version with the site navigation
toolbar restored, I hope it'll be possible to make the
DocBook-specific toolbar available as a "plug-in" XUL application/
modification (at XUL Planet or Deskmod or Mozdev or wherever).

  --Mike