I'm wondering if anyone knows where I can get the structure of the HTML table of contents and index files, or tell me there is an easier way to do what I'm doing.

The motivation is this: I like the HTML help builder for compiling CHM files, but it appears to be a serious mousetrap. It seems that it would take forever to add keywords, build a TOC, etc.

My approach is to embed the necessary information into the code itself, using what I call comment extensions, then parse it out.

I wrote a little parser that lets me fill my comments with stuff like this:

*#HTML
*#TITLE Textbox (Foundation Class)
*#SEE ALSO Input Controls
*#SEE ALSO Foundation Classes
*...HTML tags and text here...
*#/HTML

The cool thing is that it automatically generates any number of HTML pages of programmer reference, but the thought of adding them all (1123 on my current project) to a table of contents using the HTML help builder is truly depressing. So I figured if I knew the structure I could just write out the TOC and Index after generating the pages.

Also, in case you're wondering, I've tried Rick Strahl's help builder and found that it did not solve my problem. I was still typing everything twice (once in code and once in docs). My present approach lets me document completely in code, I'm just missing these pieces to build a nice CHM file completely automatically out of the VFP project.

Anybody know how the structure of these files?

As always, TIA...