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Subject: DocBook XML and helpsets
I've just worked through a project for which I generated a JavaHelp helpset from my source doc via the DocBook XSL. Now, moving forward, for various reasons we are likely to switch our application from being a Java client app to a Ajax-style web app that will run in Mozilla and IE. It's been a while since I was using RoboHelp for making help systems and I'm a bit fuzzy on where or not there are any other decent frameworks within which one can display help-like content in any browser. Microsoft WinHelp and HTMLHelp are out because they require the Microsoft help-viewing machinery; so is JavaHelp and OracleHelp; I know of a Mozilla Help Viewer but it's usable just in Mozilla... Netscape Help died a long time ago as far as I can tell... The closest thing I've seen to what I want is the WebHelp framework that RoboHelp made, but last I messed with it (almost two years ago) it was fairly buggy and proprietary to whit. I can't seem to find any open-source type of help frameworks like this using JavaScript. What are people using these days? I notice that, for example, Google Maps has a help system that basically looks more like a traditional web site, sans the collapsing/expanding TOC and other helpset niceties... Maybe that's my best bet... Any tips or advice from anyone doing similar things? Regards, Alan C. Oehler Sr. Technical Writer XenSource, Inc.
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