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Can you break a single HTML file into multiple pages like PEGHELP for Pocket PC does? SA Dev 07-27-2004
Posted by SA Dev on July 27, 2004, 1:49 pm
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Hi,

I just finished writing something to make a help file for a Pocket PC
device. The Pocket PC device allows not really showing the .HTM file as a
long single file, but instead uses a tag to suppress the file to only
display one topic at a time. It then uses bookmarks to jump around the
file. I realize that this could be done with multiple HTML files, but I was
hoping there was some way to do it in a single file somehow. Does anyone
have any ideas or an example? Maybe I need to look into the MS CHM file
format. Any ideas?

Thanks,

SA Dev




Posted by Philipp Lenssen on July 28, 2004, 8:32 am
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SA Dev wrote:

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I suppose you could store the file in your-XML, or XHTML, and use XPath
conversion or XSLT to write different HTML files to disk. You could use
PHP5, or ASP, or something like that. I wonder why the Pocket PC device
is not smart enough to split the files up itself. After all no one says
a single HTML file must be displayed in a single chunk, I believe the
browser may take the freedom to format according to the medium
restrictions -- not necessarily something the author of the web-page
should do.


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Posted by jerry gitomer on July 28, 2004, 10:57 am
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Philipp Lenssen wrote:
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Well, you could build a single file and use embedded links for
navigation. Put a table of contents at the top of the file and
make each topic (including the closing "Return to Top")
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Posted by SA Dev on July 28, 2004, 10:53 am
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Hi Jerry,

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But how can I make the current topic the only thing listed in the window, so
that if you are on a specific topic, you can't scroll up or down past the
topic you are on?

Thanks,

SA Dev




Posted by jerry gitomer on July 29, 2004, 5:49 pm
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SA Dev wrote:
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Ooops,
Sorry I missed that requirement in your original post -- You can't.

I think you are going to have to make a choice between one HTML
file per topic and the large number of files that will result in
not being able to stop the user from scrolling to a next or
prior page.


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