Somehow, I ended up with a few help topics missing from a set of RoboHelp source files today. Subversion had removed them, and RoboHelp didn’t know where they were. I haven’t solved the case of how that happened, and at this point I don’t really care, because Subversion allowed me to fix the problem.

When I discovered that the topics were missing, I knew the wrong thing to do would be to import the corresponding output files. For WebHelp, RH inserts JavaScript and possibly other code into each topic in the output, and if you import an output topic, you have to deal with stripping out that extra code so it isn’t duplicated later.

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