Using Contribute for HTML Help?

Hello- am wondering if anyone has thoughts on using CS4 to manage an online help system. One aspect we are liking is the XHTML support, whereby we could use an xml parser to pull out pieces of content from the main help so that we can embed and dynamically display them in our application. The downside seems that we would lose the indexing and searching of a tradition help system.
Anyway, any advice would be helpful. We've used RoboHelp and it is a bit clunky and lacks a way to dynamically extract content.
Thanks.
--J

Hi Patrice,
I know nothing about the SW, but it looks like their Forum is fairly active...
http://www.hendricom.com/forums/index.php?s=e2f2d622c4e587a0d45ab70e9bb4cdc4&sho wforum=3
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.

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