I'm trying to compile my first HelpStudio project and I keep getting errors in the compiler where it says things like this:

HHC3004: Warning: Section1.html : The HTML tag "?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /" is not a valid HTML tag (it does not begin with an alphanumeric character).

So I go to that help page and view the XHTML source and it doesn't show up anywhere.  There are no links in the page, and the images are relative links and show up just fine.  So I'm not sure what I can do to fix this issue?

Can anyone give me some guidance on fixing this?

Thanks!

Eddie

Had this same problem when I pasted text from a Word document into a Help Studio topic.

Search for “?xml” in the Xhtml tab and then remove the ‘section’ of code/text.

 Sorry, did you mean to reply?  I don't see anything in your message...

exoid:

Search for “?xml” in the Xhtml tab and then remove the ‘section’ of code/text.

That's the weird thing - the pages where I'm seeing this are not very long, and I've looked at the XHTML for all of them and there is no "?xml" or that type of tag anywhere in the XHTML code.  Unless it's embedded in the template and I can't see it, I can't imagine where it's coming from. 

Do you have any Xml tags beginning with <st: in your source? The ?xml namespace directive is probably added automatically if you have a tag beginning with <st: in your source. If that isn't the problem, could you paste the html from this topic, or send it to us at support@innovasys.com so we can help further.

 Well, I compiled it again and now I get none of those errors.  Not sure what caused it, but if I run into this again I'll post more info here.

Thanks!