README for Version 1.0 (27 Oct 1998) of DSSSLHELP

The HTML version of the DSSSL Specification is available in three flavors:

html.zip contains a "plain" HTML version

htmlhelp.zip contains a compiled HTML Help version

helpsrc.zip contains the sources for the HTML Help version

HTML Help is the successor to Microsoft WinHelp. It is distributed with Internet Explorer 4.0 and more recent applications.

The advantages of the compiled HTML Help version are an index and full text searching. It is supposed to be possible to support some or all of these features in other browsers using ActiveX or Java extensions, but I've never tried. It's also supposed to be possible to serve HTML Help over the web. Download the HTML Help sources is if you want try.

In addition, you'll need (at least) the HTML Help for Authoring distribution

http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp/

NOTES

The following notes apply to the HTML and HTML Help versions of the DSSSL Specification.

- Constructed from the SGML sources at:

ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/WG8/DSSSL

These are the sources of the final draft from 1995, not the actual

standard as published by ISO.

• The replacement text of several character entities was modified.
• Index terms in the HTML Help version were constructed from the following source elements:
  • H3T (to capture flow object classes),
  • HP1 (because they appear to be definitions of some sort),
  • CODE (to capture flow object characteristic names), and
  • PROTO (to capture procedure names).
  This has not produced a perfect index by any means.

If you find conversion or markup errors *introduced in this HTML version*, please report them to Norman Walsh,

<ndw@nwalsh.com>. I have no power to modify the original draft sources.