Offline Document Request

guobiao_cn

How to use the documentation, references to download, I have searched for a long time, still can not find, whether there is a PDF document or API retrieval (all the examples);

At present let me have a dilemma is that some development environments do not allow access to the Internet, resulting in a very much time-consuming in datatables. I wish there was a way to have offline documentation and case code for developers to try.

I look forward to your reply, thanks!

allan

Hi,

I've wondered about this a few times as requests have come in for such docs. Its been a few years since the last one though I think, so it isn't something I've spent any time one.

There are a few options:

1. The docs are available in github and you could XSLT them into local files
2. An offline documentation tool such as Dash could be populated by those docs.
3. Download a copy of the reference docs from this site.

It is something I'd like to do, but unless I receive more feedback from people wanting this, it isn't something that I want to spend time on at the moment I'm afraid.

Allan

guobiao_cn

Not bad, solves part of the problem so far, but xml is obviously for advanced engineers, and also this catalog isn't as convenient as the html examples archived by datatables.net;
Tried reading datatables.net on a cell phone or tablet with ready access to the internet, and there was an incompatible display;

Maybe the document generation tool (Sphinx or MkDocs) has been very mature, such as product architecture encountered multiple language file formats, maybe Jekyll, Hugo or Hexo can be combined to do;

In fact, I would like to go further and throw offline documents to AI learning training, because from many AI models (limited knowledge base time) recognize datatables version is outdated, and the example is incomplete; I think that even rummage through the efficiency of datatables.net is far less than the AI search, generation, interpretation, correlation processing fast.

Speaking of which, I would like to make a suggestion, even if the vendors of artificial intelligence models want to learn datatables, if there is no good document format, it almost depends on the crawler to access to capture the information, which almost no one vendors original intention to do multiple times to capture the information of multiple pages (also afraid that it will be considered a malicious crawler).

guobiao_cn

I hope I can be understood if I have not expressed myself well enough, as this proposal will inevitably add to your working hours.

allan

Thanks for the feedback. The XML documentation of the API, events and options means that the data is structured and can readily be transformed into another format if someone wishes to do so. It should also help train an LLM if it understands the XML format.

It is something I'll look into when I have some time available, but time is often not my friend unfortunately. If someone else wants to look into this, I would certainly support that effort.

Allan