Re: Frame XML to HTML Help via XSLT

[larry.kollar@xxxxxxxxxx]

So WWP Pro & Mif2Go do a good job creating clean HTML from
Frame files. That's good to know, and should be a source of pride
to both Quadralay & Omsys [waves to Jeremy] because they made
the effort to do things right.

It's also a textbook example of how a "loss leader" can do more
harm than good -- in this case, WWP Standard. I guess that
Quadralay is trying to encourage people to buy the Pro version,
but the HTML that Standard makes soured me on considering
Pro (lack of a Mac version made the decision a no-brainer).


As for the time required to set up the XSLT-based conversion...
I suspect that the off-the-rack products require a certain
amount of setup time too. If nothing else, you need to create
a table to map Frame tags to the output format (whatever
that may be). You also need to spend some time learning
how to do that. Then there's the time spent testing and
revising. Hmm... sounds like you're going to spend about
as much time on the commercial tool as you are on the
free one.


Getting back to the original question, which was Rick wanting
to know whether it was feasible to generate HTML Help files
from Frame, it looks like there are several good ways to go
about it, including XSLT. Choice is good.

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc


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