OracleHelp for Java from XML - Possible?

Has anyone successfully authored an OHJ system by using an XML tool such as Epic ArborText? If so, I would love to know the process you used and whether you accomplished this by using the HelpSet wizard or some other means.

This is primarily a question for authors using Oracle Help, but as a member of the team that develops Oracle Help Technologies I've heard about many customers using XML centric tools with Oracle Help.
An Oracle Help system consists of XML control files (.hs, toc, keyword index, map files, etc), HTML content files, and a generated search index. Since you can use the search index generator that comes with OHJ to generate the search index, that file is taken care of.
I know that a small number of authors have used XML editors to create the control files, in fact, we were thinking about distributing XML Schemas for these file formats that could be used with XML Schema aware XML editors.
I know that a large number of Oracle Help systems have been developed recently using Adobe Framemaker's XML support and converters that generate the output HTML and XML control files.
I also heard a while ago about someone building an open source DocBook to Oracle Help converter.
I'm not aware of any customers using ArborText to generate Oracle Help systems, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Certainly the idea of storing the documentation in XML format and then generating the help system from that has merit.
Jeffrey Stephenson
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