Technical Details of XD/Help

The pages you see in XD/Help are stored in HTML format - the language used to write pages for the World Wide Web. HTML is a relatively powerful language, but is designed so that a system can implement a small amount of it and still produce good results.

XD/Help supports a small subset of the possible 'tags' (HTML directives), and ignores all others - this allows it to read most HTML files and display them sensibly. To create documents for XD/Help, you can either learn HTML and write it by hand, or use one of the increaing number of What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) HTML editors.

For full details on writing pages for XD/Help and on integrating it into your own applications, please see your X-Designer documentation.

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