Creating one, long HTML page Target out of a TOC?

[beagley]

I use Flare to create WebHelp and PDFs.

But sometimes I want to send a user or reviewer a single URL that contains the whole document (as defined by a TOC) as one, long HTML that I've dumped online somewhere.

This would be sort of like the PDF output, I suppose, but in HTML form.

Any tips or clever ideas of how to do this? Maybe one of Flare's existing target types can sort of produce this?

[wclass]

Try the target type "XHTML" output. This produces a single HTML file plus a book file so that you can view it using the Madcap viewer. It is in XHTML format, but you can look at the HTML file as a single entity. It puts style sheets and images in a separate "Resources" folder, so you'd have to dump that online as well.

[beagley]

Margaret-- thanks for the tip!

But it appears that the XHTML book format does NOT work with some of the MadCap custom stylesheet elements, like mc-auto-number-format, which I've unfortunately become dependent on.

Perhaps I'll just build WebHelp files, pull out the html of the topic frames, and hope for the best.
-d

[KevinDAmery]

Well, if your autonumber includes a Chapter setting, naturally it won't work if you only have one HTML file (where would the chapter breaks be?) You might want to use a variation on the stylesheet with that output that doesn't make use of elements that aren't relevant in a single-file situation. That way you could keep your source topics using the same classes etc. but interpret them differently in this output format.

[beagley]

Hey Kevin,
Thanks for your comments.

Actually, no number appears at all, as if the XHTML Book completely ignores the mc style element. Like it just doesn't read it.

I use the auto-number for all my H1s and H2s, and my document ends up having plenty of those, so it isn't a "Chapter" situation that requires a new chapter to work. I don't think. Anyway, I also use auto-number for specific <p> styles for procedures. (Step 1, Step 2, etc.) The text simply doesn't appear. I get the content of the <p>, but not the autonumber text.

I've thrown a question up in the Stylesheets forum... maybe it will attract a CSS uber brain. I'm still a fumbler with this stuff.

BTW-- If you have another notion on how to accomplish the one-page, no frames, multiple topics with a TOC at the top, on the Web output, let me know!
-d

[KevinDAmery]

Post the mc-autonumber-format either here or in the other thread and we can take a look. There may be something about the format that isn't compatible with single HTML output in some way. It's hard to troubleshoot without seeing the code, though.