I am looking for a way to generate the code needed to provide a way to view selected web pages on a portable device without a continuous internet connection.
After looking at a number of possibilities, the offline capabilities of html5 seem to be the best solution. This would require the creation of a manifest file for the pages. The specification for this file and its use are available here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/offline.html
This is fairly strait forward and could be built manually, but with the capabilities of dynamically generated pages inherent in Drupal there should be a way to accomplish this. My limited (non-existent) development skills suggest using something similar to the book module. The book module must keep track of child pages. Others have suggested that a tpl file may work. At this stage, I am open to suggestions.
If you are working on something similar, or would like to, please let me know.