Re: Frame XML to HTML Help via XSLT

[larry.kollar@xxxxxxxxxx]

Sean Brierly commented on my Frame -> HTML flow:

> WOW! That's lotsa work! But, if your desire is online
> help (such as HTML Help), WWP Pro or Mif2Go could have
> done that in a couple of hours.

I suppose, but I had neither the budget for the software
nor the Windoze box to run them on. Those afternoons that
I spent getting things just so were also afternoons spent
learning XSLT... perhaps I could do it over in a couple of
hours now that I know what I'm doing.

How clean is the HTML that WWP or Mif2Go generate? How
much tweaking is required to produce something close to
valid HTML?  This isn't just a pride-of-workmanship issue;
the chance of unpleasant surprises is greater when you're
dealing with sloppy HTML.


> And, I was assuming RoboHelp was a constraint . . .
> that is, can RoboHelp accept HTML files as source? If
> not, all that work is for nought.

Good point, but like I said: 
 
>> For your project, I guess everything hinges on the
>> phrase "in a format that RoboHelp could use."

The thing is, if you have HTML Help files, could you not
simply compile them up & be done? 

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc



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