HTML tag error occurs only when publishing in HTML

[jheidle]

I can publish using DotNet and MSWord targets, but I am unable to publish content in HTML. All of my attempts result in line errors
The HTML tag \"resources\" is missing a closing angle bracket.
The HTML tag \"anchors\" is missing a closing angle bracket.
The HTML tag \"gDocumentOnclickFuncs\" is missing a closing angle bracket.

Several like this: The HTML tag \"ç×sÿ8çÌœ™Ì™Ì$i“N?﯒œsæ9Ïù13ß<Ïsž¯\"¥D¡Þ— ( u@Ð]Q...\" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).

Take pitty on a new user

[KevinDAmery]

That is one funky set of characters. Are you seeing those in your source code?

(Also, are you using source control? If you are, you may want to retrieve the files from source again and rebuild--maybe something went wrong when you pulled it out last time.)

[jheidle]

The funky characters are in the build progress window. I did try to bind the project to our Source Control, but so far have been unsuccessful. The docs are not located in SC, and the project is not bound to SC.

[jheidle]

I've been using web output, but publishing HTML has come up again, and unfortunatley I'm having the same issue. Any suggestions?

[quote="jheidle"]I can publish using DotNet and MSWord targets, but I am unable to publish content in HTML. All of my attempts result in line errors
The HTML tag \"resources\" is missing a closing angle bracket.
The HTML tag \"anchors\" is missing a closing angle bracket.
The HTML tag \"gDocumentOnclickFuncs\" is missing a closing angle bracket.

Several like this: The HTML tag \"ç×sÿ8çÌœ™Ì™Ì$i“N?﯒œsæ9Ïù13ß<Ïsž¯\"¥D¡Þ— ( u@Ð]Q...\" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).

[KevinDAmery]

Have you checked that the topic files don't have the problems specified? (Just to be sure...)

[Pete Lees]

Hi, jheidle,

Several like this: The HTML tag \"ç×sÿ8çÌœ™Ì™Ì$i“N?﯒œsæ9Ïù13ß<Ïsž¯\"¥D¡Þ— ( u@Ð]Q...\" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).

You'll typically get this error message if the folder path down to your HTML topic files is overlong (more than 256 characters from memory), or if there is a ".h" anywhere in the path (for example, c:\Documents and Settings\j.heidle\your.help.folder).

You may also need to check for instances of ".h" in the file names of any non-HTML source files, such as graphics, script files, and style sheets. The help compiler considers any file that contains ".h" in its name to be an HTML file, and consequently it spits out error messages when it encounters file data that clearly isn't HTML.

If you do a Google search for HHC3004 (the number of this particular error), you may turn up more suggestions.

Pete