Posted by John Salerno on 01/26/06 19:18

Pete Lees [MVP] wrote:
> John,
>
>> ... does anyone know of problems compiling XHTML into a CHM file, or will
>> it just treat it like HTML?
>
> The HTML Help compiler doesn't like XML declarations such as <?xml
> version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>, and it will display error messages
> whenever it encounters them -- the tag is reportedly "not a valid HTML
> tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character)". However, XHTML
> documents that contain these declarations will still display fine in
> the HTML Help viewer. I've not encountered any other problems in the
> 3-4 years I've been compiling XHTML documents into .chm files.
>

Thanks!

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