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Creating Effective JavaHelp
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Creating Effective JavaHelp

by Kevin Lewis
June 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Using Preexisting HTML Topic Files

It is quite possible that you may start a JavaHelp project with all of your HTML topic files already created. For example, you may be converting a preexisting HTML-based help system to JavaHelp, or may simply have created all your HTML topic files before beginning your JavaHelp-level work.

If you are using preexisting HTML files, rest assured that your workload for creating the HelpSet will be nearly the same as if you created the HTML files specifically for your HelpSet. Remember, JavaHelp uses HTML for its topic files. All you have to do is point to the HTML files in your map file. You should, however, perform a quick check to make sure the HTML files meet the standards I discussed in this chapter. For example, you should check that your HTML files don’t contain markup tags or script that the HelpSet Viewer can’t interpret. You should also check that each file has a title specified with <title> tags, for use by JavaHelp’s word-search index.

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