> How have people gone about implementing a user context sensitive help system
> for web applications? I was looking at Macromedia's new RoboHelp product,
> but it is rather pricey.
> Any cheaper alternatives / suggestions?
I just looked at RoboHelp and it doesn't really look like context
sensitive help - more like a searchable user manual. If you are going
for that kind of think I have used DocBook in the past. There are many
editors out there for the DocBook format and you can process the markup
to XML, HTML, and pdf without having to redo anything. much like
RoboHelp - "Dead or alive, you're coming with me!" hehehehe
If you are really into context sensitive help, there are ways to tag
parts of html - like add an attribute of helpid or something. Then use
DOM to get access to that id and lookup information in the database. But
I don't think that is really what you want.
If you are just looking for a search thing, then docbook is the bomb.
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