The hybrid HMTL5/Markdown export option can be selected in the regular WebHelp publishing screen. Here too, there are no options to select, beyond your own regular selection of the file extension for your regular HTML files. See Hybrid HTML/Markdown for AI for some more details.

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How hybrid HTML5/Markdown WebHelp is exported and used

The export is structured so that normal display in browsers is not changed at all. The search page only includes the HTML files and search engines and AI crawlers are both directed to the files that are most useful for them.

•Generates WebHelp output as usual, using regular .html files.

•A special robots.txt file is generated to direct search engine crawlers and AI crawlers to the correct files. This can be replaced with your own edited version if you require it. See Hybrid HTML/Markdown for AI for instructions.

•A special TOC file named llms.txt is created in the output folder for AI crawlers, which will look for a file with this name. It contains the Markdown version of your table of contents (TOC).

•A corresponding .html.md file is automatically generated for every topic file in the same folder. This file extension is fixed and cannot be changed.

•The regular HTML topic files each contains a <link> tag in their <head> section that references the corresponding Markdown page, like this:
<link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="xy.html.md">

•The Markdown versions of the topic files each contain a link directly below the main heading that links back to the HTML version so that the AI systems can provide these links as live references.

•Images shown in the HTML files are referenced with links in the Markdown files.

•The index.html file — the main container file, if one is used — contains a rel link to the hmcontent.html.md, Markdown version of the table of contents.

•The hmcontent.htm TOC file also contains a rel link to the Markdown version of the TOC hmcontent.html.md.