make-man-index.py revision 9c4fa6ed1069e98db5f01a5d1056b443a04cc7d9
#!/usr/bin/env python
from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse, Element, SubElement, tostring
import sys
index = {}
for p in sys.argv[1:]:
t = parse(p)
section = t.find('./refmeta/manvolnum').text;
for f in t.findall('./refnamediv/refname'):
index[f.text] = (p, section)
k = index.keys()
k.sort(key = str.lower)
html = Element('html')
head = SubElement(html, 'head')
title = SubElement(head, 'title')
title.text = 'Manual Page Index'
body = SubElement(html, 'body')
h1 = SubElement(body, 'h1')
h1.text = 'Manual Page Index'
letter = None
for n in k:
path, section = index[n]
if path.endswith('.xml'):
path = path[:-4] + ".html"
c = path.rfind('/')
if c >= 0:
path = path[c+1:]
if letter is None or n[0].upper() != letter:
letter = n[0].upper()
h2 = SubElement(body, 'h1')
h2.text = letter
ul = SubElement(body, 'ul')
ul.set('style', 'list-style-type:none')
li = SubElement(ul, 'li');
a = SubElement(li, 'a');
a.set('href', path)
a.text = n + '(' + section + ')'
print tostring(html)