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<div class="procedure"><a id="id375868"></a><p class="title"><strong>Procedure 1. To install the package on Windows</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>.</p><p>In addition to using the ant
              <code class="filename">build.xml</code> provided,  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 4">Step 4</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"><a id="edit-build-properties"></a><p>In a text editor, edit the
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            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

# 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

# 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><div class="important" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Important</h3><p>The Saxon 6.5 jar should <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> be in your
                  <code class="envar">CLASSPATH</code> when you generate the webhelp output. If you have any
                problems, try running ant with an empty <code class="envar">CLASSPATH</code>.</p></div></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">&lt;project&gt;
  &lt;property name="input-xml" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/yourfile.xml</code></em>"/&gt;
  &lt;property name="input-images-dirs" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>images/** figures/** graphics/**</code></em>"/&gt;
  &lt;property name="output-dir" value="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/desired-output-dir</code></em>"/&gt;
  &lt;import file="<em class="replaceable"><code>path-to/docbook-webhelp/</code></em>build.xml"/&gt;
&lt;/project&gt;</pre></li><li class="step"><p>From the directory containing your newly created <code class="filename">build.xml</code>
                file, type <code class="code">ant webhelp</code> to build your document.</p></li></ol></li></ol></div></div><script type="text/javascript" src="../common/main.js"></script><div class="navfooter"><hr></hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch02.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s02.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr></table></div></div><div id="sidebar"><div id="leftnavigation" style="padding-top:3px;"><div id="tabs"><ul><li><a href="#treeDiv" style="outline:0;" tabindex="1"><span class="contentsTab">Contents</span></a></li><li><a href="#searchDiv" style="outline:0;" tabindex="1" onclick="doSearch()"><span class="searchTab">Search</span></a></li></ul><div id="treeDiv"><img src="../common/images/loading.gif" alt="loading table of contents..." id="tocLoading" style="display:block;"></img><div id="ulTreeDiv" style="display:none"><ul id="tree" class="filetree"><li><span class="file"><a href="ch01.html" tabindex="1">Introduction</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02.html" tabindex="1">Using the package</a></span><ul><li id="webhelp-currentid"><span class="file"><a href="ch02s01.html" tabindex="1">Generating webhelp output</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s02.html" tabindex="1">Using and customizing the output</a></span><ul><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s02s01.html" tabindex="1">Recommended Apache configurations</a></span></li></ul></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s03.html" tabindex="1">Search indexing</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s04.html" tabindex="1">Adding support for other (non-CJKV) languages</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch02s05.html" tabindex="1">Adding images</a></span></li></ul></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch03.html" tabindex="1">Developer Docs</a></span><ul><li><span class="file"><a href="ch03s01.html" tabindex="1">Design</a></span></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch03s02.html" tabindex="1">Search</a></span><ul><li><span class="file"><a href="ch03s02s01.html" tabindex="1">New Stemmers</a></span></li></ul></li></ul></li><li><span class="file"><a href="ch04.html" tabindex="1">FAQ</a></span></li></ul></div></div><div id="searchDiv"><div id="search"><form onsubmit="Verifie(searchForm);return false" name="searchForm" class="searchForm"><fieldset class="searchFieldSet"><legend>Search</legend><center><input id="textToSearch" name="textToSearch" type="search" class="searchText" tabindex="1"></input> &nbsp; <input onclick="Verifie(searchForm)" type="button" class="searchButton" value="Go" id="doSearch" tabindex="1"></input></center></fieldset></form></div><div id="searchResults"><center></center></div><p class="searchHighlight"><a href="#" onclick="toggleHighlight()">Search Highlighter (On/Off)</a></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>