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<div class="procedure"><a id="idp126912"></a><p class="title"><strong>Procedure 1. To install the package</strong></p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>The examples in this procedure assume a Windows
installation, but the process is the same in other
environments, <span class="foreignphrase"><em class="foreignphrase">mutatis
mutandis</em></span>. In an environment where unix
shell command are available, you can also use the
<code class="filename">Makefile.sample</code> as a starting point
for creating your build script. To use
<code class="filename">Makefile.sample</code> you must have
<span class="command"><strong>xsltproc</strong></span> and <span class="command"><strong>java</strong></span>
available in your <code class="envar">PATH</code>. You can also use
the <a class="ulink" href="http://docbkx-tools.sourceforge.net/docbkx-samples/manual.html" target="_top">Docbkx Maven plugin</a> to generate webhelp.</p></div><ol class="procedure" type="1"><li class="step"><p>If necessary, install <a class="ulink" href="http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp" target="_top">Java
1.6</a> or higher.</p><ol type="a" class="substeps"><li class="step"><p>Confirm that Java is installed and in your <code class="envar">PATH</code> by typing the
following at a command prompt: </p><pre class="programlisting">java -version</pre><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>To build the indexer, you must have the JDK.</p></div></li></ol></li><li class="step"><p>If necessary, install <a class="ulink" href="http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi" target="_top">Apache
Ant</a> 1.8.0 or higher. See <a class="ulink" href="http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html" target="_top">Ant installation instructions</a>.</p><ol type="a" class="substeps"><li class="step"><p>Unzip the Ant binary distribution to a convenient location on your system. For
example: <code class="filename">c:\Program Files</code>.</p></li><li class="step"><p>Set the environment variable <code class="envar">ANT_HOME</code> to the top-level Ant
directory. For example: <code class="filename">c:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.8.0</code>. </p><div class="tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Tip</h3><p>See <a class="ulink" href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519" target="_top">How To Manage
Environment Variables in Windows XP</a> for information on setting
environment variables.</p></div></li><li class="step"><p>Add the Ant <code class="filename">bin</code> directory to your <code class="envar">PATH</code>. For
example: <code class="filename">c:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.8.0\bin</code></p></li><li class="step"><p>Confirm that Ant is installed by typing the following at a command prompt:
</p><pre class="programlisting">ant -version</pre><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>If you see a message about the file <code class="filename">tools.jar</code> being
missing, you can safely ignore it.</p></div></li></ol></li><li class="step"><p>Download <a class="ulink" href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/saxon/saxon6-5-5.zip" target="_top">Saxon
6.5.x</a> and unzip the distribution to a convenient location on your file system.
You will use the path to <code class="filename">saxon.jar</code> in <a class="xref" href="ch02s01.html#edit-build-properties" title="Step 5">Step 5</a> below.</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>The <code class="filename">build.xml</code> has only been tested with Saxon 6.5, though
it could be adapted to work with other XSLT processors. However, when you generate
output, the Saxon jar must <span class="bold"><strong>not</strong></span> be in your
<code class="envar">CLASSPATH</code>.</p></div></li><li class="step"><p>Download <a class="ulink" href="https://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/" target="_top">Xerces2
Java</a> and extract it to a convenient location on
your file system. You will need the
<code class="filename">xercesImpl.jar</code> and
<code class="filename">xml-apis.jar</code> from this distribution
in in <a class="xref" href="ch02s01.html#edit-build-properties" title="Step 5">Step 5</a>. </p></li><li class="step"><a id="edit-build-properties"></a><p>In a text editor, edit the
<code class="filename">build.properties</code> file in the
webhelp directory and make the changes indicated by the comments.</p><div class="important" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Important</h3><p>You must set appropriate values for
<code class="code">xslt-processor-classpath</code>,
<code class="code">xercesImpl.jar</code>, and
<code class="code">xml-apis.jar</code>.</p></div><p>See the DocBook <a class="ulink" href="../../../doc/html/webhelp.html" target="_top">reference
documentation</a> for detailed information about the
available webhelp and other parameters. Note that not all
DocBook parameters are passed in to the xsls by the
<code class="filename">build.xml</code> by default. You may need
to modify the <code class="filename">build.xml</code> to pass in
some DocBook
parameters.</p><pre class="programlisting">
# The path (relative to the build.xml file) to your input document.
# To use your own input document, create a build.xml file of your own
# and import this build.xml.
input-xml=docsrc/readme.xml
# The directory in which to put the output files.
# This directory is created if it does not exist.
output-dir=docs
# If you are using a customization layer that imports webhelp.xsl, use
# this property to point to it.
stylesheet-path=${ant.file.dir}/xsl/webhelp.xsl
# If your document has image directories that need to be copied
# to the output directory, you can list patterns here.
# See the Ant documentation for fileset for documentation
# on patterns.
#input-images-dirs=images/**,figures/**,graphics/**
# By default, the ant script assumes your images are stored
# in the same directory as the input-xml. If you store your
# image directories in another directory, specify it here.
# and uncomment this line.
#input-images-basedir=/path/to/image/location
<span class="emphasis"><em># Modify the follosing so that they point to your local
# copy of the jars indicated:
# * Saxon 6.5 jar
# * Xerces 2: xercesImpl.jar
# * xml-commons: xml-apis.jar
xslt-processor-classpath=/usr/share/java/saxon-6.5.5.jar
xercesImpl.jar=/usr/share/java/xercesImpl.jar
xml-apis.jar=/usr/share/java/xml-apis.jar
</em></span>
# For non-ns version only, this validates the document
# against a dtd.
validate-against-dtd=true
# The extension for files to be indexed (html/htm/xhtml etc.)
html.extension=html
# Set this to false if you don't need a search tab.
webhelp.include.search.tab=true
# indexer-language is used to tell the search indexer which language
# the docbook is written. This will be used to identify the correct
# stemmer, and punctuations that differs from language to language.
# see the documentation for details. en=English, fr=French, de=German,
# zh=Chinese, ja=Japanese etc.
webhelp.indexer.language=en
# Enables/Disables stemming
# Stemming allows better querying for the search
enable.stemming=true
# Set admon.graphics to 1 to user graphics for note, tip, etc.
admon.graphics=0
suppress.footer.navigation=0</pre></li><li class="step"><p>Test the package by running the command <code class="code">ant
webhelp -Doutput-dir=test-ouput</code> at the command
line in the webhelp directory. It should generate a copy
of this documentation in the <code class="filename">doc</code> directory. Type <code class="code">start
test-output\index.html</code> to open the output in a
browser. Once you have confirmed that the process worked,
you can delete the <code class="filename">test-output</code> directory. </p></li><li class="step"><p>To process your own document, simply refer to this package from another
<code class="filename">build.xml</code> in arbitrary location on your system:</p><ol type="a" class="substeps"><li class="step"><p>Create a new <code class="filename">build.xml</code> file that defines the name of your
source file, the desired output directory, and imports the
<code class="filename">build.xml</code> from this package. For example:
</p><pre class="programlisting"><project>
<property name="input-xml" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/yourfile.xml</code></em>"/>
<property name="input-images-dirs" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>images/** figures/** graphics/**</code></em>"/>
<property name="output-dir" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/desired-output-dir</code></em>"/>
<import file="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/docbook-webhelp/</code></em>build.xml"/>
</project></pre></li><li class="step"><p>From the directory containing your newly created <code class="filename">build.xml</code>
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