Documentation of RH 8 configuration files

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June 14, 2011
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Hi,

I want to generate by programming all files needed by a RH project.

The idea is to reuse the output generator features of RH using tech doc XML files.

For doing that, I need to understant the format of hhc, hhk, hhp, xpj, ajp, ali and all other configuration files.

So my question is : does adobe provide any documentation of the format used by all RH XML configuration file ?

If yes, where can I find this useful information ? If no, does someone has yet summarize all this informùation.

Thanks for any information, Pierre

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Peter Grainge

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I believe the purpose of those files is in the online help but the file structure is not covered. I have not seen that documented anywhere.

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pierrattaAuthor

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Thanks for your answer,

As soon as these are XML files, I'm quite sure they are somewhere documented.

My reference documentation is the frame documentation which is really quite good.

The only question is where is this information available.

Pierre

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Welcome to our community, Pierre

Likely Adobe internal folks will be the only source for the documentation of these files.

This is because the files aren't typically used by third parties or average RoboHelp authors to create content.

What you are asking is the equivalent of wanting to know how to manipulate the "behind the scenes" file structure of a Microsoft Word document. 99.9% of all Word users could care less. Same goes with RoboHelp users. Most could care less about the structure of these files. They are all updated behind the scenes as they work with RoboHelp.

Cheers... Rick