kadov is gone, but not forgotten.
If you don't care about kadov, skip to the end.
RH 7 doesn't use the old kadov tags in source html, so they
don't appear in WebHelp output topics either.
However, RH 7 does not automatically clean up kadov coding
when you import a topic created in RH 6 into a new RH 7 project..
Nor does it clean up when you use RH 7 to open a project originally
built in RH 6 or earlier.
This bit is generated when you put two or more spaces
together:
<!--kadov_tag{{<spaces>}}--> <!--kadov_tag{{</spaces>}}-->
In RH 7 it becomes
<spaces> </spaces>
but not automatically.
Note the regular space at the beginning. You can repair this
with the RH find and replace utility, changing the string to a
single space (unless you wanted the extra space. In that case just
leave them there and RH will insert
<spaces> </spaces>).
I traced most of the kadov carryover to a .css stylesheet
originally created in RH 5 (maybe earlier) and reused in RH 6 and
7. I had built custom bullet styles. Some used a standard disc or
square, while some used custom images. RH coded the style and
duplicated it in a slightly different form, with kadov tags. (This
presumably ensured the display would be same in RH WYSIWYG as in
WebHelp output. Hmmm .....)
Steps I took:
1. In each topic, deleted the meta string
<meta name=filetype content=kadov>
2. Outside RH, cleaned up the .css stylesheet. You can build
a new one in RH7, which may be less trouble than revising the old
.css file with a text editor. I removed everything kadov.
3. Launched the project in RH 7.
4. Selected all topics and in the properties dialog, applied
default .css to all, reapplied the custom stylesheet to all, and
closed the dialog with the X icon at upper right. If you click OK,
you need to check a few topics to see which .css file stuck.
5. Generate WebHelp to a test location and see whether any
kadov tags got through. Do this even if you don't see kadov tags in
the project source files' html code.
6. I hope the next won't be necessary.
If kadovs still show up in the output,
a. Delete the problem styles in RH and rebuild them.
b. Reapply the style sheet to each topic.
c. Repeat Step 5.
d. If kadov isn't dead yet, open each topic and reapply the
corrected style everywhere the original was used. Regenerate
WebHelp.
Alternatively, you could spend that time making some lemonade
and sitting back to reflect on whether it's worth the trouble.
Depends on how obsessive you are about kadov.
Harvey