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Subject: Question regarding TOC layout for HTML Help .chm file built with mergemodules

From: Taro Ikai <tikai@ABINITIO.COM>
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:25:43 -0500

Hello all.

My question concerns HTML Help output only, so please disregard it if that 
is
not of interest to you.

I've split my project to build a separate .chm file for each book as a 
merge module.
I've separately hand-crafted a master .hhp project to include all of the 
merge modules
produced from the books.

The problem I'm experiencing is with the TOC layout for the master .hhp 
project.
My .hhc file for TOC looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft&reg; HTML Help Workshop 4.1">
<!-- Sitemap 1.0 -->
</HEAD><BODY>
<UL>
<OBJECT type="text/site properties">
        <param name="FrameName" value="right">
        <param name="Window Styles" value="0x800025">
</OBJECT>
</UL>
        <LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
                <param name="Merge" value="book1.chm::/toc.hhc">
        </OBJECT>
        <LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
                <param name="Merge" value="book2.chm::/toc.hhc">
        </OBJECT>
        <LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
                <param name="Merge" value="book3.chm::/toc.hhc">
        </OBJECT>
        <LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
                <param name="Merge" value="book4.chm::/toc.hhc">
        </OBJECT>
</BODY></HTML>

The problem is that when viewed with the HTML Help Viewer, the project's 
TOC appears with an extra, empty 'untitled' node between each of the top 
nodes
defined in the .hhc file above.

Does anyone have successful experience at defining the TOC for 
a master project that includes multiple merge modules?

Taro