make-man-index.py revision a6c9b1c492378a093fe7db69c42a19b8f8193814
#!/usr/bin/env python
from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse, Element, SubElement, tostring
from sys import argv, stdout
index = {}
for p in argv[1:]:
t = parse(p)
section = t.find('./refmeta/manvolnum').text
purpose = t.find('./refnamediv/refpurpose').text
for f in t.findall('./refnamediv/refname'):
index[f.text] = (p, section, purpose)
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 sorted(index.keys(), key = str.lower):
path, section, purpose = 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, 'h2')
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 + ')'
a.tail = ' -- '
i = SubElement(li, 'i')
i.text = purpose
hr = SubElement(body, 'hr')
p = SubElement(body, 'p')
p.text = "This index contains %s entries, referring to %i individual manual pages." % (len(index), len(argv)-1)
stdout.write(tostring(html))