Another update: It turns out you can "see" the exclusion of content below
the lowest HTML chunked level from the search index in the CHM. I am now
thinking the problem we are facing (at least so long as we continue to use
the XML => CHM => HTML => DMP path) is either a limitation of Microsoft
HTML Help or a feature/deficiency of our Styler stylesheet ... whether my
coding or a limitation in its ability is not clear. Hoping to hear from
support on that question soon.
I should probably build a demo in axdocbook (and support may ask me to) to
see what's going on there.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Paul Nagai <->
wrote:
> Two updates:
>
> 1) With respect to "tuning" our current process of using PE and a Styler
> stylesheet to produce HTML Help which we then decompile in order to
> recompile using DMP: I have discovered that if I add HTML chunking to h2
> and h3, then my search terms will be found and displayed with the results
> are sorted by Table of Contents. Fascinating! However, when we do this, we
> get the predictable but undesirable result that the right-hand content pane
> now only shows tiny bits of content (h2 or h3, and if h2, then only the
> content that is introductory / sibling to its descendant h3s). With
> chunking only down to the h1, the entire h1 displays and the left-hand
> navigation pane/TOC moves the reader about within that h1. I opened a
> ticket with PTC hoping to get some tips on how to modify this behavior.
>
> 2) With respect to building the DMP input image with PE bypassing HTML
> Help and the Microsoft decompiler: So I have upgraded one of my
> environments and I now have the PE/DMP capability. I have successfully
> created a DMP input image and built that input image into a DMC
> application, however ... I can't quite figure out how to get a "book".
> Rather, I get the equivalent of the resulting ditamap IN the left-hand TOC.
> Not a book title that acts like a folder containing all the chapters of the
> book. Do I need to create a ditamap to wrap the ditamap? Or is there some
> special way to indicate in the content_config file that is now calling the
> ditamap that it should show the whole thing as a unit, not each chapter as
> a unit. Does that make sense? That said, the DMP build does not recognize a
> value ("DITAMAP") for the attribute @tocType on DocumentSet in
> content_config, so some of that may still be a version issue ... that is,
> my DMP predates full PE/DMP integration. . It still builds without the
> attribute but ...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Clay Helberg <chelberg@terraxml.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul--
>>
>>
>>
>> I guess I'd want to see more detail about the HTML that your process is
>> generating. If you are generating output for HTML Help and then repurposing
>> it for DMP, it may be the case that your topics are off just a little bit
>> from what DMP expects. (HTML Help is notorious for having some quirky
>> markup requirements.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Can you publish directly to DMP input image instead of HTML Help (or
>> maybe in addition to HTML Help)? You might have better luck that way.
>>
>>
>>
>> --Clay
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Paul Nagai [
>> in content in <h2>s in TOC view
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> Authoring using Editor 6.0 m090. Building DMP with 6.0 m010 or m020 (I
>> can't quite tell).
>>
>>
>>
>> I've got a Styler stylesheet making HTML Help (CHM) files that are then
>> decompiled and rebuilt into DMP packages. <chapter> and <h1> are chun...