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RE: [platform-help-dev] Tools for creating and maintaining help files
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I believe this question belongs on a more general eclipse list--this one
is really for the help system developers.
The best way to generate eclipse UA plugins is to author in DocBook or
DITA and use the xsls provided by the respective projects to create your
eclipse plugin. For legacy content, you can convert any chm to an
eclipse plugin using tidy + an xslt to convert the .hhc file to a
toc.xml file (and generate a plugin.xml too). The .hhc and toc.xml are
very similar in structure, so it ends up being a pretty easy xslt.
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: platform-help-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:platform-help-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Frank.Turovich@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:54 AM
> To: platform-help-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [platform-help-dev] Tools for creating and
> maintaining help files
>
> Am about to start converting several books worth of html
> files (100s of
> files) into Eclipse ready help content and am wondering what
> tools everyone else is using to do this? Have manually done
> this with a couple of small books to learn the process but
> think that there is something I may be missing to help me do
> the job more efficiently.
>
> Having looked around, I see that there are several tools to
> create and maintain the html files (Dreamweaver, etc.) but
> can find nothing that helps me in setting up and maintaining
> the XML and TOC files for subsequent updates. So, I'm
> wondering if this is always a manual process? If not, what
> tools and processes do you use to keep your docs up-to-date
> and easy to maintain?
>
> Original books are in Adobe FrameMaker and conveted to HTML
> using Quadralay's Webworks Publisher. After that, manual
> intervention appears to be the only method to convert the
> HTML to work with Eclipe's help system.
>
> Please tell me I've missed something that can help.
>
> Thx // frank
>
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