We are using structured FrameMaker and linking the ditamaps to RoboHelp projects. We have several help projects that are merged. (We've only recently started using this method, and are still getting the kinks worked out.)
Links between topics in the same project work fine. But links to a different help project don't work. The XML from the structured FrameMaker file looks like this:
<link href = "..\base\about_xpm.xml#id122HH0Q0E5Z" type = "fm:DITA Default Format"><linktext >About xPM</linktext></link>
But when it's brought into the RoboHelp project, the HTML looks like this:
<a>About xPM</a>
Pretty easy to see why it doesn't work! (BTW, I also tried this using a FrameMaker-style cross-reference. Same results.)
Is there a work-around for this? Some other method for creating the link in FM, or for "hard-coding" the href path? Or is there a setting in RoboHelp that I could change?
If we can't get this to work, I'm afraid we're going to have to abandon our single-sourcing efforts and go back to authoring in RoboHelp.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
