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Re: Is anyone developing help for Eclipse-based products?

Subject: Re: Is anyone developing help for Eclipse-based products?
From: Chuck Martin <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:02:41 -0700


Roger Bell wrote:

Chuck Martin wrote:
> I'm wondering 2 things:

CAN RH use the Eclipse Help DTD to automatically generate Eclipse Help-style XML, and if so, how?

If not, would DreamWeaver's very powerful search and replace funciton work as well for the purpose as an add-on utility?

Chuck, I don't think I know enough about XML to answer your first question,
but I'll try anyway. I know you must export your entire project to XML in
RH, or you won't get the TOC, index, browse sequence and other files you're
developer will need to plug your help into Eclipse. That is an option you
have in the XML output dialog box. My help topics use our custom screen and
print CSSs and do not rely on any CSS or DTD from Eclipse to my knowledge.

I think RH can do transformations automatically. I'm guessing that the HDF Handler tool is used to create the files necessary to output the TOC XML using a custom DTD.

But I'm not *that* familiar with XML myself to know if what I'm saying here even makes sense.

Another frustration I have is with RH's CSS "editor," which works only with a few of it's built-in paragraph formats and fails utterly in creating good cross-browser CSS. I do all my CSS customizations externally.


The only reason I use HTML Search and Replace is because it will do more
than search and replace within multiple files at once. It will also add text
or code before or after a string or text. I think you get 30 days free on
the download. But if DW works for you, then use it.


DreamWeaver's search and replace feature can use Regular Expression to do some pretty powerful stuff on a site (project) wide basis.


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