I second (third?) the advice for using Update HTML Doc.

Since you are editing ActiveState's docs, you might want to check out perltoc.

The author mentioned it on c.l.p.m. a couple of days ago. It adds a search box to the table of contents. You type in a regex directly. The neat thing is that it sets up a "client-side!" perl httpd to handle the requests.

caveats: the author uses CGI but uses a home-grown query-string parser - easily fixed. Also, it's client side - so you need javascript turned on and perlscript needs to be enabled for local files. It therefore only works on IE in a windows environment.

I modified the script to use the CGI.pm for fetching form values and to allow non-regex searches. I want to check with the author to see if it's ok to post the modified code here.

Alternatively, I might just rewrite it using server-side code to do the searching - it would be more secure. The problem with that is that you'd need to run the activestate docs through a real webserver.

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In reply to Re: ActiveState's HTML documentation by $code or die
in thread ActiveState's HTML documentation by John M. Dlugosz

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