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<p>A common requirement for technical publications groups is to produce a Web-based help
      format that includes a table of contents pane, a search feature, and an index similar to what
      you get from the Microsoft HTML Help (.chm) format or Eclipse help. If the content is help for
      a Web application that is not exposed to the Internet or requires that the user be logged in,
      then it is impossible to use services like Google to add search. <a id="id375647" class="indexterm"></a>
      </p><div class="itemizedlist"><p class="title"><strong>Features</strong></p><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>Sophisticated CSS-based page layout</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Client-side search.<a id="id375673" class="indexterm"></a></p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: circle; "><li class="listitem"><p>Provides full content search of the documentation. Shows the search results with
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                times the words in search query appears in it, is it bold or not, is in index terms
                etc. The score out of 5 is shown by small colored boxes after each
                search-result.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Search results can include brief descriptions of the target.<a id="id375711" class="indexterm"></a></p></li><li class="listitem"><p>Stemming support for English, French, and German. Stemming support can be added
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            build file by importing it into your own or use it as a
            model for integrating this output format into your own
            build system. Alternatively, you can use this Ant script
            as a template for creating your own build script or you
            can use the <a class="ulink" href="http://docbkx-tools.sourceforge.net/docbkx-samples/manual.html" target="_top">Docbkx Maven plugin</a>.</p></li></ul></div></div><script type="text/javascript" src="../common/main.js"></script><div class="navfooter"><hr></hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"> </td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr></table></div></div><div id="sidebar"><div id="leftnavigation" style="padding-top:3px;"><div id="tabs"><ul><li><a href="#treeDiv" style="outline:0;" tabindex="1"><span class="contentsTab">Contents</span></a></li><li><a href="#searchDiv" style="outline:0;" tabindex="1" onclick="doSearch()"><span class="searchTab">Search</span></a></li></ul><div id="treeDiv"><img src="../common/images/loading.gif" alt="loading table of contents..." id="tocLoading" style="display:block;"></img><div id="ulTreeDiv" style="display:none"><ul id="tree" class="filetree"><li id="webhelp-currentid"><span class="file"><a href="ch01.html" tabindex="1">Introduction</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02.html" tabindex="1">Using the package</a></span><ul><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s01.html" tabindex="1">Generating webhelp output</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s02.html" tabindex="1">Using and customizing the output</a></span><ul><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s02s01.html" tabindex="1">Recommended Apache configurations</a></span></li></ul></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s03.html" tabindex="1">Search indexing</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s04.html" tabindex="1">Adding support for other (non-CJKV) languages</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s05.html" tabindex="1">Adding images</a></span></li></ul></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch03.html" tabindex="1">Developer Docs</a></span><ul><li><span class="file"><a href="ch03s01.html" tabindex="1">Design</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch03s02.html" tabindex="1">Search</a></span><ul><li><span class="file"><a href="ch03s02s01.html" tabindex="1">New Stemmers</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch04.html" tabindex="1">FAQ</a></span></li></ul></div></div><div id="searchDiv"><div id="search"><form onsubmit="Verifie(searchForm);return false" name="searchForm" class="searchForm"><fieldset class="searchFieldSet"><legend>Search</legend><center><input id="textToSearch" name="textToSearch" type="search" class="searchText" tabindex="1"></input> &nbsp; <input onclick="Verifie(searchForm)" type="button" class="searchButton" value="Go" id="doSearch" tabindex="1"></input></center></fieldset></form></div><div id="searchResults"><center></center></div><p class="searchHighlight"><a href="#" onclick="toggleHighlight()">Search Highlighter (On/Off)</a></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>