HTML Help processing

The htmlhelp transformation creates HTML Help control files. If the build runs on a system that has the HTML Help compiler installed, the control files are compiled into a CHM file.

Once the pre-processing and XHTML processes are completed, most of the HTML Help processing is handled by the following targets:

  • dita.map.htmlhelp

    Create the HHP, HHC, and HHK files. The HHK file is sorted based on the language of the map.

  • dita.htmlhelp.convertlang

    Ensures that the content can be processed correctly by the compiler, and that the appropriate code pages and languages are used.

  • compile.HTML.Help

    Attempts to detect the HTML Help compiler. If the compiler is found, the full project is compiled into a single CHM file.