Last TOC book does not expand

Question

I have a WebHelp project in which the last book in the TOC
does not expand. The icon switches from closed to open, but the
contained books and topics do not appear. I see the same behavior
in IE and Firefox on Windows, and Mozilla on Linux.
The contents of the TOC up to that point are defined in
whxdata/whtdata0.xml in the generated output. In that file, the tag
for the last book (whose title is "Reference") contains a reference
to the "next" XML:
<book name="Reference" >
<chunk name="Reference" ref="whtdata1.xml" />
</book>
The file whtdata1.xml exists and contains the data for what
should be the contents of the "Reference" book.
Any clues for why the referenced data is not being displayed?
Janet Swisher --- Senior Technical Writer
Enthought, Inc.
http://www.enthought.com

Answer 1

Janet,
When I have a problem like this, sometimes I find a very tiny
error in syntax. So if you haven't already gone back there, I would
suggest you do so.
I have this situation:
Opening in an XML editor such as FAR, in "whtdata0.xml" I see
this reference:
- <book name="Database tables">
<chunk name="Database tables" ref="whtdata1.xml" />
</book>
. . . . etc.
File "whtdata1.xml" starts like this:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252' ?>
- <tocdata>
<item name="Introduction" url="introduction.htm" />
- <book name="aaaa tables">
<item name="APP_ROLE" url="aaaa/APP_ROLE.htm" />
<item name="APP_USER" url="aaaa/APP_USER.htm" />
<item name="APPLICATION" url="aaaa/APPLICATION" />
<item name="DOMAIN" url="aaaa/DOMAIN.htm" />
. . . etc
The hyphens don't show up in Notepad or TextPad. Is it
missing in your file?
Harvey