Keyword index in HTM fails with n quote in the topic id

brunos · Unread post by **brunos** » Mon Dec 16, 2002 8:14 pm

A small test: what's wrong with this topic name?

Searching by applying a Shell's desktop

I'll tell you what: it produces the topic ID as:

SearchingbyapplyingaShell'

and this id causes a run time error in Internet Explorer when the keyword index is displayed, claiming that ")" is required.

This time it took me 20 minutes to find it out, since firstly I taught it's because of the quote in the title header, so I took it away, and re-exported; but the error was still there. Then, I took it away from the topic caption in the TOC; but the error (of course) was still there. Finally, I remembered to check the ID box.

Next time I'll try not to be so stupid.

Bruno

Unread post by **Tim Green** » Tue Dec 17, 2002 10:07 am

I fought with this little gotcha for a while too. Now I've simply gotten into the habit of always checking and editing the IDs of my new topics. I agree that all non-alphanumeric ASCII characters should be filtered out automatically, though.

I also always edit the IDs to make them easier to find when making links. I try to give them a prefix matching their chapter or category, like INF_, DLG_, INTR_, MNU_ and so on...