Re: Is anyone developing help for Eclipse-based products?
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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-176541 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Chuck Martin
Chuck Martin said:
I am definitely curious how you're going to use RH (and why on Earth you'd
use FrontPage!)
Chuck, that pare is easy. If you use RH X5, you can generate XML output. If
you generate the entire project as XML, RH generates XHTML topic files, and
XML files for the TOC, index, glossary, browse sequence, etc. I use
FrontPage as my HTML editor because the RH editor does not play well with my
CSS (using lots of DIVs) and FP 2003 does.
That's why most help authors recommend never, ever opening topic files in any version of RH, and to define an outside editor in the RH project.
What I don't know is how to transform the RH-generated XML to the Eclipse-specific "language." (But if someone knows how, I might actually have a use for the copy of RH5 that was bought for me here.)
I trust DW to not change my source files a lot more than I ever will FP.
Chuck Martin said:
The InfoPops themselves are controlled by a separate XML file that works
like a map file: it contains both context IDs and references to content
files.
Chuck this is the crux of my problem. The actual content of the InfoPops is
merely contained in a description node in an XML file. RH does not generate
this type of XML file, so I would probably have to had code the file
(error-prone and time consuming) or use an XML editor. It would be nice to
have a utility or application that would do this with no fuss, as I am not
very familiar with XML coding.
Yeha, my bad. I wasn't reading the engineer-written text close enough; the InfoPop content is part of that same XML file. I'm not as familiar with the application as I'd like, but I think XML Spy would work for this; I think you could author text in the description tags easily enough. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong). XML Spy is very good at making sure your XML is valid, and you could probably design it so you wouldn't be actually typing tags.
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