Question about the delivered *.xhp files

[Andras Timar]

Hi Regina,

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Regina Henschel
<rb.henschel at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed, that in the delivered *.xhp files (those in the *.jar
> archives) mandatory attributes are removed, so that those files do not
> validate against the doctype definition in xmlhelp.dtd. Is that intended?
> And if yes, what were the reasons to do so?
>

This way we could reduce the size of binary help packages to the half
of their original size. There are many elements and attributes which
are important only compile-time or not used at all. We keep only those
that are used by the run-time xhp->html conversion.

Best regards,
Andras