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[platform-help-dev] Reducing the size of the XML files? (Fwd)

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Previously, Steve Reid wrote:
> We've put a lot of docs into the Eclipse help system (over 11,000
> printed pages). The XML topics files that go with the docs are huge -- a
> couple are more than 1M. Although we've broken the topics files into
> pieces, the Help system takes a long time to parse all that XML and
> display the contents.
> 
> We arrange our docs as a bunch of booksets, with one for the QNX OS,
> another for the microGUI, another for driver-development kits, and so on.
> Each bookset contains a number of books (e.g. Programmer's Guide,
> Library Reference, Utilities Reference). We currently have one XML
> topics file per bookset.
> 
> I've noticed that every book, chapter, section, and subsection that
> appears in the Contents pane requires a path from the top of the doc.zip
> file down to the specific anchor in the HTML file. Is there a way to
> specify a "base path" that would apply to all anchors until you specify
> a new one?
> 
> Does anyone have any other suggestions to speed things up?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
> 
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> Steve Reid                  stever@xxxxxxx
> TechPubs (Technical Publications)
> QNX Software Systems
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> 

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Steve Reid                  stever@xxxxxxx
TechPubs (Technical Publications)
QNX Software Systems
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