I decompile the CHM file produced by Sandcastle because Sandcastle output does not provide an index file (.hhc) that I can use to edit the main TOC in my RoboHelp project.
The Sandcastle HTML output files that I import into Robohelp have very intricate nesting and hyperlinking, so autogenerating a TOC in RoboHelp does not produce the desired results. Decompiling is the only way I see to obtain an index file that Robohelp will recognize and add/edit to the existing TOC.
This may be ignorance on my part, but I can't look at an HTML-based .hhc (RH8) and know how to edit it to be XML-based (RH9).
See below for examples.
(RH8 .hhc)
<UL>
<LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
<param name="Name" value="SecurityKeywordList Class">
<param name="Local" value="html/A077D816.htm">
</OBJECT></LI>
<UL>
<LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
<param name="Name" value="SecurityKeywordList Members">
<param name="Local" value="html/11169289.htm">
</OBJECT></LI>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
<param name="Name" value="SecurityKeywordList Methods ">
<param name="Local" value="html/F3929639.htm">
</OBJECT></LI>
<UL>
<LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
<param name="Name" value="Find Method ">
<param name="Local" value="html/3EA4BB08.htm">
</OBJECT></LI>
</UL>
<UL>
<LI><OBJECT type="text/sitemap">
<param name="Name" value="FindAll Method ">
<param name="Local" value="html/B9BC3800.htm">
</OBJECT></LI>
</UL>
</UL>
<UL>
(RH9 /hhc)
<item name="KeysetList Class" link="Unity\html\CE1C2166.htm">
<item name="KeysetList Members" link="Unity\html\B924C78B.htm">
</item>
<item name="KeysetList Methods" link="Unity\html\2296b028.htm">
<item name="Find Method " link="Unity\html\15B259BE.htm">
</item>
</item>
<item name="KeysetList Properties" link="Unity\html\e98d8b4e.htm">
</item>
</item>
<item name="Keyword Class" link="Unity\html\AC081184.htm">
<item name="Keyword Members" link="Unity\html\AF52F347.htm">
</item>
<item name="Keyword Methods" link="Unity\html\C9317DF2.htm">
<item name="Clone Method " link="Unity\html\2B16250F.htm">
</item>
<item name="Equals Method " link="Unity\html\5AA411AE.htm">
<item name="Equals Method (Object)" link="Unity\html\EE184CE3.htm">
</item>
<item name="Equals Method (Keyword)" link="Unity\html\D600E80A.htm">
</item>
</item>
<item name="GetHashCode Method " link="Unity\html\9A9979B7.htm">
</item>
</item>
<item name="Keyword Properties" link="Unity\html\5A9776D1.htm">
<item name="AlphaNumericValue Property " link="Unity\html\3CA3F3CF.htm">
</item>
<item name="CurrencyFormat Property " link="Unity\html\66CFE652.htm">
</item>
<item name="CurrencyValue Property " link="Unity\html\C2A5A2F6.htm">
</item>
<item name="DateTimeValue Property " link="Unity\html\B7358EF1.htm">
</item>
<item name="FloatingPointValue Property " link="Unity\html\6EA77C25.htm">
</item>
<item name="IsBlank Property " link="Unity\html\32367245.htm">
</item>
<item name="KeywordType Property " link="Unity\html\976D4B82.htm">
</item>
<item name="Numeric20Value Property " link="Unity\html\5A9DF184.htm">
</item>
<item name="Numeric9Value Property " link="Unity\html\56FE0652.htm">
</item>
<item name="Value Property " link="Unity\html\25A1DCBB.htm">
</item>
</item>
</item>
