Processing to Eclipse help targets using Eclipse

This topic assumes you are already familiar with the Eclipse environment and know how to develop Eclipse plug-ins.
This topic assumes you want to author DITA topics making up an Eclipse help plug-in using Eclipse to both edit and build the content.
  1. Start Eclipse and create a new Eclipse plug-in development project.
  2. Apply the DITA template to the new project. This causes the template wizard to start.
  3. In the wizard, set:
    • the source directory
    • the DITA map file
    • the output directory
    • the CSS directory
    • the name of any customized CSS file
    • the name of any ditaval file
    The main DITA map will be created in the source directory and build.xml will be created in the root directory.
  4. Edit one or more DITA topic files in the source directory.
  5. Update the DITA map file to include the topics created.
  6. Select build.xml and run it with Ant. The DITA output should now be in the output directory.
  7. Edit the plug-in description in the plug-in editor, referring to the TOC files generated in the output directory.
  8. Update the build property file to include all the output files.
  9. Export the output files to a document plug-in.
Parent topic: Processing (building) and publishing DITA documents