Eclipse help processing
The eclipsehelp transformation generates XHTML-based output and files that are needing to create an Eclipse Help system plug-in. Once the normal XHTML process has run, the dita.map.eclipse target is used to create a set of control files and navigation files.
Eclipse use multiple files to control the plug-in behavior. Some of these control files are
generated by the build, while others might be created manually. The following Ant targets control
the Eclipse help processing:
- dita.map.eclipse.init
- Sets up various default properties
- dita.map.eclipse.toc
- Creates the XML file that defines an Eclipse table of contents
- dita.map.eclipse.index
- Creates the sorted XML file that defines an Eclipse index
- dita.map.eclipse.plugin
- Creates the plugin.xml file that controls the behavior of an Eclipse plug-in
- dita.map.eclipse.plugin.properties
- Creates a Java properties file that sets properties for the plug-in, such as name and version information
- dita.map.eclipse.manifest.file
- Creates a MANIFEST.MF file that contains additional information used by Eclipse
- copy-plugin-files
- Checks for the presence of certain control files in the source directory, and copies those found to the output directory
- dita.map.eclipse.fragment.language.init
- Works in conjunction with the dita.map.eclipse.fragment.language.country.init and dita.map.eclipse.fragment.error targets to control Eclipse fragment files, which are used for versions of a plug-in created for a new language or locale
Several of the targets listed above have matching templates for processing content that is located outside of the scope of the map directory, such as dita.out.map.eclipse.toc.
Parent topic: XHTML processing modules