So I may be the only person using HtmlHelp and the generate.revhistory.link and seeking to customize the resulting revhistory html page .....
And leaving aside the issue of exactly what the (very old and badly documented) MS Help Compiler is doing, and why it sort of works even if its input appears not to be correct ..... There would appear to be a fault in the default stylesheets for html-help generation. If generate.revhistory.link is set, although the rh-prefixed html file is generated, no reference to the generated revhistory html file is generated in the [FILES] section in the hhp file. Looking in htmlhelp-common.xsl I can see the code that generates the [FILES] section. Though I can't follow how it works in full. I would appreciate it if someone familiar with this process could explain how it works, and preferably provide a fix. Once the process is fixed I can resume customizing the html. Regards, Richard. 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Although the sender endeavours to maintain a computer virus-free network, the sender does not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and will not be liable ________________________________ From: Kerry, Richard [[email protected]] Sent: 20 May 2013 14:22 To: DocBook Apps Mailing List [[email protected]] Subject: [docbook-apps] HtmlHelp/CHM - Revision History+generate.revhistory.link - not visible in output I'm looking at the CHM/HtmlHelp output from my project. (Using Saxon-6, Microsoft Html Help Compiler, and Ant to call them both) I want to customize how the Revision History is displayed. I would like to be able to show it linked from the title-page, using generate.revhistory.link. If I copy the d:revhistory and d:revhistory/d:revision templates from html/block.xsl I can customize them with no problem. However, that is relevant to "in-line" revision histories, ie within a <section>. I would like to have the Revision History available linked from the title page, but in another page, which should be achievable using generate.revhistory.link. However, if I copy the d:revhistory and d:revhistory/d:revision templates for mode="titlepage.mode" from html/titlepage.xsl I start getting problems. (Note that at this stage I've made no changes to those templates so that can't be what's causing the problem) The first problem I noticed was that merely copying the relevant templates out of the default stylesheet file and into my customization stylesheet file would break the result. The Revision History link is available on the title page, but clicking it gives me a page "This program cannot display the webpage". By looking at the html produced by the DocBook-Xsl transformation I know that a page with the Revision History has been generated, named rh-something.html. However, it is not referenced by the .hhp file, which should list all the html files, shouldn't it ? (It does list all the other html files) That was where I'd got to last week. Today I sat down to look at it again and I am now even more puzzled. The .hhp file never contains a reference to the rh file ! Whether or not the resulting chm works there is no rh-something.html file listed in the .hhp file that has been produced by the DocBook stylesheets. If I manually add the rh file, as generated by the transform, to the list in the hhp file, it then works. Unfortunately I can't find any reference documentation for the Html Help Compiler (which is very old, and twice superseded.....) so I can't see whether it should contain some built-in rules for finding pages which aren't listed. So, does anyone know : 1. Why it works when not customized, despite the rh file not being listed in the hhp ? 2. How the DocBook-XSL system is supposed to work for HtmlHelp; specifically the generation of the .hhp file and the writing of the reference for the rh-something file into the hhp. Puzzledly, Richard. 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