Subject:MS Help Workshop V1.0 HHC3004 error message From:alfred wild <derflawild -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:54:20 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all,
I’ve encountered a strange problem in MS Help Workshop with one of my Help 1.0 (CHM) projects. I created the 1,300+ HTM and GIF files in it using DreamWeaver and have maintained them on this project for over five years, periodically (once or twice a year) having to make some changes and recompile. I’ve sometime gotten compiler crashes, but have always been able to identify and fix the problems fairly easily.
But this time when it compiles (using the FAR utility), the error log lists (as usual) each of the files as they’re processed, but after going throug the entire list takes exception to a single one of them, for which it produces the following warning messages, followed by the “Critical Error” message shown below:
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "#ŽºØ°û.¼ñzšL,‘Pé¾üÂ:‚¬<°Àkôš Æ8ç¬óÎ<÷ìóÏ -at- -ôÐBsìL -dot- -dot- -dot- " is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "çIÏzÚóžøþ̧" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "؃" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "é—4É— -at- é“ù8˜6™“þø—1T“Y ˜6Y”H9™”ù‰Ÿ§?— Ò§¨(•ç •¥H+¡..." is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "À \À |À œÀœ
žp Y€¾ê ÁŒÈ¾²+Á |ÁyWŠÔ'~ ÜÁ üÁàG~çÁ \..." is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "Çt\Çt”Çz¼Ç|ÜÇ~üÇþ€ È‚<È„\Ȇ|ȈœÈŠ¼ÈŒÜÈŽüÈ É’<É..." is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag " gÌàc|Þ .á7îà ®á þã ~á -at- Þá žÊ " is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "ê¦Þîî®ÕÌ=+Y.èòÞå÷ìê " is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag ")Ì1áä³O?ÿ 4PA%´P åL˽:׳Q=…4RI'¥´RK/Å (Dé\”Fñ|..." is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "¡=„÷À˱CŠî3^´àÇ.+ ‹nì¢Å¨Dâm²~#,ã'1éÉL®ñƒ¤$¡ é¸JV..." is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "æ:[ñÎH -at- uªU½jV•ÚÕ¯†u¬e=kZ×ÚÖ• Àu½k^÷Ú׿ v°]ka ÛØÇ..." is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "$Dà äÄNŒ5 tÆM¤EktBb Ec$À ÌÆ%<C®‹•)œFALÇBºAœEu$Çmü..." is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
HHC3004: Warning:
agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm :
The HTML tag "öã?þV=Þã¬èc -at- 6äC^Ö¯ÏE" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).
*** Critical Error ***
FAR detected that MS Compiler hha.dll has crashed during compilation.
Please check your code carefully for errors.
For more info please see: http://helpware.net/FAR/far_faq.htm#HTML_Help_Compilation
Try restarting this application to clear the error.
*** Critical Error ***
Done: Warnings: 0; Errors: 0;
The offending file is one of the 230+ ones that contain a screen capture in GIF format. Here are its contents:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Agreements Form Insurance Bond Tab</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR>
<LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="abm-style.css">
</HEAD><body>
<!-- FOLLOWING CODE PLACES A "BACK" BUTTON IN TOP LEFT OF FORM JUST RIGHT OF TITLE -->
<!-- GOES IMMEDIATELY AFTER <BODY> TAG -->
<div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; left:85px; top:37px; width:75px; height:25px; z-index:1">
<form>
<input type="button" value="Continue" onClick="history.back();" name="button">
</form>
</div>
<!-- ************************ END OF COMMENT ************************************* -->
<H3 class=heading>ABM Help</H3>
<H1 class=heading>Agreements Form Insurance Bond Tab</H1>
<img src="gifs/agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.gif">
<!-- COMMENT OUT
<p>Use the <img src="gifs/back-button.gif" border="1"> button to return to the
previous page</p>
END COMMENT -->
<!-- CODE FOR BUTTON TO "PREVIOUS" SCREEN -->
<table>
<tr>
<td width="95%" size="1" colspan="2">
<form>
<input type="button" value="Continue" onClick="history.back();" name="button">
</form>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- END OF "PREVIOUS" SCREEN BUTTON CODE -->
</BODY></HTML>
This file, like the others containing an anchor tag pointing to a GIF file, is created from boilerplate code (lines 1 – 14 and 18 – 33) which is identical in all of them (except for the value of the <TITLE> tag.
I have not been able to work around this problem despite the following actions (taken in the order listed):
• Commenting out the line
<a href="agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm">Show me an example</a>
in the three files where it occurs.
• Creating a new “agreement-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm” file from the boilerplate.
• Searching in vain in the GIF file for any of the binary strings complained about in the warnings (for example, "#ŽºØ°û.¼ñzšL,‘Pé¾üÂ:‚¬<°Àkôš Æ8ç¬óÎ<÷ìóÏ -at- -ôÐBsìL -dot- -dot- -dot- ").
• Removing the offending file "agreements-form-insurance-bond-tab.htm" from the list in FAR compiling step "3. Choose Content Files"
Whatever I do, I get the same “unlucky 13” HCC3004 warnings. Just as puzzling, since the error log reports:
“Done: Warnings: 0; Errors: 0;”
I don’t understand what’s causing the “Critical Error” crash or how to fix it
Any ideas or suggestions would be most appreciated.
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