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Report · Jun 30, 2010

RH8 question. When I compile, I get this warning message:

HHC3004: Warning:

DevSrf.htm :

The HTML tag "?rh-script_end ?" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character)

This tag is created by RH. Should I just ignore it? Why does RH put something in that generates a warning?

Report · Jun 30, 2010

What are you generating?

Look at the tag in HTML view and look at a similar tag, any differences?

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Report · Jun 30, 2010

I am generating HTML Help. I don't actually understand your suggestion. If I remove these tags, RH puts them right back. Here is the html code for a short topic with the offending tag applied:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

content="" />

<title>Alerter</title>

width="0" height="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" type="application/x-oleobject"></object>

</head>

<body>

<?rh-script_start ?><script src="../ehlpdhtm.js" type="text/javascript"

language="JavaScript1.2"></script><?rh-script_end ?>

<p class="CommandTop"><?rh-variable_start name="title" format="default"

showcode="showcode" value="Alerter" ?>Alerter<?rh-variable_end ?></p>

<col />

<td style="border-right: Solid 1px #000000; padding-right: 5px;

padding: left 5pt 'border-right-color:' #000000; vertical-align: center;"><p

class="MenuToolbar" id="p1"><a class="popupspot" href="JavaScript:hhctrl.TextPopup('Not on menus.','Verdana,9',10,10,00000000,0xd8e9ec)"

id="a5" style="position: relative;">Menu</a></p></td>

<td style="border-right: Solid 1px #000000; padding-right: 5px;

padding-left: 5px; vertical-align: center;"><p class="MenuToolbar"

id="p2"><a

href="javascript:BSSCPopup('../Popup_ToolbarButtons/Alerter_TB.htm');"

id="a2" style="position: relative;">Toolbar button</a></p></td>

<td style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; vertical-align: center;"><p

class="MenuToolbar" id="p3"><a href="javascript:BSSCPopup('../SeeAlso/SAK_Options.htm');"

id="a4" style="position: relative;">Related topics</a></p></td>

</tr>

</table>

<p>Opens the <a href="../Options/Alerter.htm" id="A1" style="position: relative;">Options

dialog box</a> at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alerter</span>

page.</p>

<?rh-placeholder type="footer" ?>

<?rh-script_start ?><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2">//<![CDATA[

if( typeof( FilePopupInit ) != 'function' ) FilePopupInit = new Function();

FilePopupInit('a2');

FilePopupInit('a4');

//]]></script><?rh-script_end ?>

</body>

</html>

Report · Jun 30, 2010

I wasn't suggesting removing them. The reason for asking what the help output was is that I think the answer might simply be that the Microsoft Help compiler doesn't recognise that tag and is whingeing, probably without cause. It was either that or the tag had got corrupted but with what you have now added, I doubt that is it.

Is your CHM working as you would expect?

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Report · Jun 30, 2010

I assume I can just ignore the warning. Am I right?

Report · Jun 30, 2010

As I said, I think you can ignore it. If your help file is working OK, then my theory is sort of confirmed. If everything works, I would ignore it.

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Report · Jul 13, 2010

Not this topic....

Report · Jul 19, 2010

I had this error on the <?rh-cbt_end ?> tag. What I discovered what while I was doing a Find and Replace I doubled up the <?rh-cbt_end ?> tag in a few topics. So, I did a Find on <?rh-cbt_end ?><?rh-cbt_end ?> and replaced it with <?rh-cbt_end ?> and that fixed the problem and got rid of the error.

I know it isn't the same tag to which you're referring, but HTH.

Report · Jul 20, 2010

This may be the problem it is pointing to the ehlpdhtm.js script that as far as all our project go this script has been in the root folder of the project, try taking the ../ out and make sure the script is in the root folder of the project.

"<?rh-script_start ?><script src="../ehlpdhtm.js" type="text/javascript"

language="JavaScript1.2"></script><?rh-script_end ?>"

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