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"applet help" xsls in contrib directory


I put a (fairly simple) customization of the htmlhelp xsls in the contrib directory. It allows you to generate cross platform help that works on most browsers that can run applets, and you can still generate a chm from the same html help project. For the applet-based help to work, you have to get some class files etc. from the html help workshop directory and put them with the frameset files that the xsl generates. 

Known issue: for the index tab to work you have to turn on htmlhelp.use.hhk, but the index that's generated with the applet isn't as nice as the one in the chm. In fact, it isn't even sorted (apparently the chm does that automatically), so I need to figure out what to do to the generated hhk file to make it work for this applet based help. 

There's no search or favorites tab, but apparently some other ActiveX-stuff, like html help Related Topics buttons would work if it were included. 

Here's a demo of the output:
http://www.thingbag.net/docbook/applethelp-demo/

The files:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/docbook/contrib/xsl/applethelp/

Let me know if you have any questions or problems. I'd be interested to hear what browsers/platform combinations it does and doesn't work on. The output works on Opera 6/7 on Win2k, IE 5.5 and 6 on Windows, Opera 6 and Netscape 4.7 on Linux, IE 5.x on Mac OS X and 9.x (Netscape 4.7 on Mac 9.x crashed, however), and Netscape 7 on Windows and Mac OS X. 

David


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