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<chapterinfo>
<author>
<firstname>Jirka</firstname>
<surname>Kosek</surname>
</author>
<copyright>
<year>2001</year>
<holder>Ji&rcaron;&iacute; Kosek</holder>
</copyright>
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<title>Using XSL stylesheets to generate HTML Help</title>
<?dbhtml filename="htmlhelp.html"?>

<para>HTML Help (HH) is help-format used in newer versions of MS
Windows and applications written for this platform. This format allows
to pack several HTML files together with images, table of contents and
index into single file. Windows contains browser for this file-format
and full-text search is also supported on HH files. If you want know
more about HH and its capabilities look at <ulink
url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/chm/HH1Start.htm">HTML
Help pages</ulink>.</para>

<section>
<title>How to generate first HTML Help file from DocBook sources</title>

<para>Working with HH stylesheets is same as with other XSL DocBook
stylesheets. Simply run your favorite XSLT processor on your document
with stylesheet suited for HH:</para>

<screen format="linespecific">saxon <replaceable>yourfile</replaceable> <replaceable>/path/to/stylesheets/</replaceable>contrib/htmlhelp/htmlhelp.xsl</screen>

<para>If you are using XT processor, you should use stylesheet
<filename moreinfo="none">xthtmlhelp.xsl</filename> instead of
<filename moreinfo="none">htmlhelp.xsl</filename>.</para>

<para>Stylesheet imports standard chunking stylesheet, thus set of
HTML files is created in usual way. Other files are also created
&ndash; <filename>htmlhelp.hhp</filename> is project file for HTML
Help Compiler and <filename>toc.hhc</filename> holds structure of your
document.</para>

<para>Language identifier for whole HH file is taken from the top most
element with <sgmltag class="attribute">lang</sgmltag> attribute in
your DocBook source. This is perfectly legal for documents in only one
language. If language is not specified in the document, US English is
defaulted. There is one problem &ndash; MS language codes are country
sensitive, and this information is not available in DocBook source. If
the stylesheet selects bad code for you, edit
<filename>langcodes.xml</filename>, and remove all entries which have
yours language code, but are located in inappropriate country.</para>

<para>Title of whole HH file is taken from first title element in your
document. Fulltext searching is automatically on. If your document
contains index terms, they are automatically converted to HH ActiveX
objects, which are recognized by HTML Help compiler.</para>

<para>Stylesheet creates couple of files which are then used as an
input for HTML Help Compiler (HHC) which is part of <ulink
url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/download_main.htm">HTML
Help Workshop</ulink>. If you have HHC in your path, you can start
conversion to HH format by running command:</para>

<screen format="linespecific">hhc htmlhelp.hhp</screen>

<para>If you can not stand without your mouse, there is alternative
way. Just double-click on <filename
moreinfo="none">htmlhelp.hhp</filename> file. HH Workshop will be
launched automaticaly. Generation of HH file can be started by selecting
<menuchoice moreinfo="none">
<guimenu moreinfo="none">File</guimenu> <guimenuitem
moreinfo="none">Compile</guimenuitem> </menuchoice> from application's
menu.</para>

</section>

<section>
<title>Customizing generated files</title>

<section>
<title>Enabling navigation links</title>

<para>By default, HTML Help stylesheet disables navigation links at
the start and the bottom of each page. If you want to enable this
feature, start your XSLT processor with parameter <parameter
moreinfo="none">suppress.navigation</parameter> set to 0.</para>

<screen format="linespecific">saxon <replaceable>yourfile</replaceable> <replaceable>/path/to/stylesheets/</replaceable>contrib/htmlhelp/htmlhelp.xsl "suppress.navigation=0"</screen>

<para>Another approach is to create driver file, which overrides
default parameter value.</para>

<programlisting><![CDATA[<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	        version="1.0">

  <xsl:import href="]]><replaceable>/path/to/stylesheets/</replaceable>contrib/htmlhelp/htmlhelp.xsl<![CDATA["/>

  <xsl:param name="suppress.navigation" select="0"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>
]]></programlisting>

</section>

<section>
<title>Generating HTML Help for non-Western European languages</title>

<para>If you are generating HTML Help for non-Western Europe
languages, you should change output encoding of your files, because
HTML Help compiler improperly handles UTF-8 and even character
entities in TOC file and index entries. This can be easily done by
<quote>driver</quote> file like this:</para>

<programlisting><![CDATA[<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
	        version="1.0">

  <xsl:import href="]]><replaceable>/path/to/stylesheets/</replaceable>contrib/htmlhelp/htmlhelp.xsl<![CDATA["/>

  <xsl:param name="htmlhelp.encoding" select="'windows-1250'"/>
  <xsl:param name="default.encoding" select="'windows-1250'"/>
  <xsl:param name="saxon.character.representation" select="'native'"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>
]]></programlisting>

<para>Default encoding is ISO-8859-1 (aka ISO Latin 1).</para>

</section>

</section>

<section>
<title>Feedback</title>

<para>If you have any comments and suggestion about HTML Help
stylesheet feel free to contact me at following address
<email>jirka@kosek.cz</email>.</para>

</section>

</chapter>