Is there a place to find Help error codes and what they mean?

I am suddenly getting a HHC3003 error...

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Is there a place to find Help error codes and what they mean?

  • Mark q jones

    The errors all seem to have something to do with this information at the top of the HTML page. 

    < xml:namespace prefix = v ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" />< xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

     

    These pages all deal with attributes for Help 2 files. Seems like an opening slash is missing from the beginning of each statement (before the “MSHelp…”)

     

    Invariably the <TITLE> field is corrupted, so that there is no closing </TITLE> tag, making the whole of the page unreadable. This can be corrected manually, but it's a real pain having to do this.

     

    Japanese and other language headings may corrupt the HTML files created by Document! X. Note that there may be other characters that cause this problem, as it seems to depend which character comes at the end of the heading, so you really need to do a systematic test using all of the other character sets – or avoid them completely.

     

    Regardless of the HTML page for which the HHC3003 message is generated, the following sentences are all the same (as above). This error message includes pages that are not in the TOC, like Getting Started and introduction. Deleting and rebuilding the output file does make a difference.

     

    The compiled file seemed normal.

     
    My Help project was fine Friday when I loaded a Doc-To-Help Professional from CD. Monday, my project showed hundreds of HHC3003 errors dealing with a missing bracket for XML statements involving MSHelp. Of course, I thought I must have inadvertently copied some HTML scrap in form another Help file, but this error apparently had nothing to do with a corrupted project or content file, but instead was a corrupted complier error.

     

    With instant support from Innovasys, I reinstalled Help 2.0 for Visual Studio.NET IDE 2003 from the Microsoft link provided by Innovasys, restarted and rebuilt and viola, the errors disappeared!


  • jcz1

    Did you see this error message in the Search Toolwindow   An error message like HHC3003 shouldn't be surfaced to the user so this is something we'd like to look at if it's happening in the UI.

    Can you provide the repro steps

    Thanks!
    Jeremy



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