Code Scanning in RoboHelp 2020?

[Vicki5E13]

Is there a code scan in RoboHelp (i.e., looking for empty tags, multiple span tags on content, etc.)?    

I've been noticing when our team has edited, we are getting these types of code issues and looking for a quick way to find them and fix them without having to review the code line by line.   

[Peter Grainge]

How are they editing? Not something I have seen that bad. 

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[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Not that I've ever heard of - that mess looks like residual Word cruft. As Peter asks, "how are they editing"?

[WoutJacobs]

Afraid not, it's best to design structural rules to catch these things.

In this case, the rule seems rather simple from a programming point of view.

1. Find all <span> tags in the topic.
2. For each <span> tag, check if they have actual content.
3. If false, remove <span> tag.

Or in actual code:

import os
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

project_folder = 'C:\\Users\\XXX\\XXX\\GitHub\\RH\\Projects\\XXX\\contents'

def getLinks(project_folder):

    htm_files = []

    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(project_folder, topdown=False):
        for name in files:
            if name.endswith('.htm') or name.endswith('.hts'):
            htm_files.append(os.path.join(root, name))
    return htm_files

htm_files = getLinks(project_folder)

for htm_file in htm_files:
    with open(htm_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
        data = file.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'html.parser')

    spans = soup.find_all('span')
    changes_were_made = False # to prevent saving every single file in project

    for span in spans:
        if len(span.contents) < 1:
            changes_were_made = True
            span.extract()

    if changes_were_made:
        with open(htm_topic, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file:
            file.write(str(soup))

As you encounter more and more issues, the number of rules will expand. On our end, we have about a dozen or so rules at the moment.

[Vicki5E13]

Thanks!   Didn't think of that.