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Neil Perlin

Neil Perlin

www.hyperword.com

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Handler Overview
  3. Creating a New Handler Description File
  4. Creating a New Handler
Created:
4 April 2005
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
Robohelp

RoboHelp X5 and XML – Part 2: Using Handlers to Customize RoboHelp XML Features

This article is the second of a two-part series that examines Macromedia RoboHelp support for XML. This article focuses on RoboHelp “handler” features you can use to customize XML support. Similar to the first article, RoboHelp X5 and XML – Part 1: Import and Export Features, this article discusses the features’ mechanics, their peculiarities, and some aspects of integrating them in a documentation workflow. This article doesn’t cover all the details, but it will help you evaluate whether you can use RoboHelp in an XML environment.

Handlers are like “scripts.” You can use them to export topics or projects in HTML form RoboHelp to various forms of XML. Likewise, you can also use handlers to import material in various forms of XML into RoboHelp.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Macromedia RoboHelp X5

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About the author

Neil Perlin is president of Hyper/Word Services of Tewksbury, MA. He has been a technical writer since 1979 and a trainer, consultant, and developer since 1985 for online formats and tools such as WinHelp, HTML Help, WebHelp, JavaHelp, CE Help, RoboHelp, and some now known only in legend. Neil provides consulting, training, and development for online help and documentation, workflow and standards, RoboHelp, RoboInfo, RoboDemo, XML, and single sourcing. You can reach him at nperlin@concentric.net.