Use of Dynamics in Compiled HTML Help

["Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM>]

I'm evaluating using compiled HTML help for some upcoming projects and have
a few questions and concerns.  First, I usually shun HATs for composition
tools.  They are way too restrictive.  I would rather write the HTML file
text and imbed the objects in FrontPage and add the programming code in
notepad.  After I create the HTML files, I want to import them into an HTML
help compiler to produce a single compiled file.

The problem is that the HTML help compilers that I have tried (HTML help and
RoboHTML) choke on the programming code (VBScript and/or JavaScript) and
abort the compiling.  My documents contain as much automation code as they
do text and graphics.  I need the compiler to tolerate imbedded
objects/controls, VBScript and JavaScript, dynamic HTML, database extraction
objects, and so forth.

HTML help still is not developed enough to meet my needs and RoboHTML
doesn't like to relinquish its controls. Is there a tool that only compiles
the HTML, makes an index, and makes a TOC that does not try to manage the
whole process (composition, linking, and so forth) while accepting
programming code and dynamic HTML?

Mike

Michael Wing (mailto:mjwing -at- ingr -dot- com)
Staff Writer
Intergraph Corporation; Huntsville, Alabama
http://www.ingr.com/iss/products/mapping/


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