Generating CHM help and PDF manual from the same source

Answer 1

Have you considered DocBook? You can render that as just about anything. See this Code Project article for examples for CHM generation.

Answer 2

Check out Help And Manual http://helpandmanual.com/products_hm_features.html

Answer 3

You could achieve what you want if you implement the following:

1) Generate Html from XML

2) Generate CHM from Html

You can use Microsoft Html Help workshop to generate CHM files using Html, see: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=00535334-c8a6-452f-9aa0-d597d16580cc&displaylang=en

3) Generate PDF from Html using an Html-to-PDF tool.