MS .hlp and .chm conversion to html or xml

[chook]

Any know of any free tool to convert a m$ help file to xml or html?

tia

Chook

 

[Alan]

Any know of any free tool to convert a m$ help file to xml or html?

Try at www.helpmaster.com. .chm will decompile readily to .html files.
..hlp is .rtf-based, so requires a bit more work.

 

[??]

Any know of any free tool to convert a m$ help file to xml or html?

The HTML Help executable "hh.exe" supports the "-decompile <output
folder>" (without quotes) parameter that decompiles a .chm file.

For example:

C:\Winows\hh.exe -decompile c:\testfolder c:\yourfolder\yourfile.chm

Sometimes the parameter does not work if the original file structure of
the component html files is more than one folder deep.

 

[chook]

Try at www.helpmaster.com. .chm will decompile readily to .html files.
.hlp is .rtf-based, so requires a bit more work.

Great stuff!
I didnt know I about hh.exe file.
Thanks
chook

 

[Pete Lees]

Any know of any free tool to convert a m$ help file to xml or html?

For .chm files you could use hh.exe, HTML Help Workshop, or KeyTools
to decompile each file and recover the source HTML files.

HTML Help Workshop: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/htmlhelp/html/hwMicrosoftHTMLHelpDownloads.asp
KeyTools: http://www.keyworks.net/keytools.htm

For .hlp files, you could first decompile each file using HelpDeco,
available from:

http://www.helpmaster.com/help-developmentaids-helpdeco.htm

Then you could load each help project into HTML Help Workshop to
create the HTML version.