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Over in this thread http://helpman.it-authoring.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=10810 I posted a bit of Java code that parses xml topic files to insert conditional text, so that file links in .chm format use \ (backslash) and others (e.g. webhelp) use / (frontslash), so that links to files in subdirect...

Thanks again. I'm good to go now. Fortunately I don't need path access outside the help folder, just nested within it. So, all I had to do was insert conditional text to create \ links for chm and / links for webhelp. I wrote a bit of Java to process all my XML topics, making a single link with \ or...

I may have spoken too soon ... it seems that / doesn't work for nested link references in .chm ?

Ahh ... that makes sense. I think I must have been thinking in the wrong file system paradigm when I started adding directory nesting to my links manually, because the Edit Hyperlink dialog actually doesn't reflect folder hierarchy when you use its browse button. Thanks!

I've browsed around with search and can't find a previous report of this. Our help system links to a number of ancillary files (code for simulation models); these reside in subdirectories of the help location (so that the links work on all platforms). Everything works fine from .chm files on Win mac...