DocBook 5 to WebHelp Output
DocBook 5 documents can be transformed into several types of WebHelp systems.
WebHelp Classic Output
To publish a DocBook 5 document as a WebHelp Classic system, follow these steps:
- Click the Configure Transformation Scenario(s) action from the toolbar (or the . menu
- Select the DocBook WebHelp Classic scenario from the DocBook 5 section.
- Click Apply associated.
When the DocBook WebHelp Classic transformation is complete, the output is automatically opened in your default browser.
WebHelp Classic with Feedback Output
To publish a DocBook 5 document as a WebHelp Classic with Feedback system, follow these steps:
- Click Configure Transformation Scenarios.
- Select the DocBook WebHelp Classic with Feedback scenario from the DocBook 5 section.
- Click Apply associated.
- Enter the documentation product ID and the documentation version.
When the DocBook WebHelp Classic with Feedback transformation is complete, your default browser opens the
installation.html
file. This file contains information about the output location, system requirements, installation instructions, and deployment of the output. Follow the instructions to complete the system deployment. For more information, see Deploying a Feedback-Enabled WebHelp System.
To watch our video demonstration about the feedback-enabled WebHelp system, go to https://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/Feedback_Enabled_WebHelp.html.
WebHelp Classic Mobile Output
To publish a DocBook 5 document as a WebHelp Classic Mobile system, follow these steps:
- Click Configure Transformation Scenarios.
- Select the DocBook WebHelp Classic Mobile scenario from the DocBook 5 section.
- Click Apply associated.
When the DocBook WebHelp Classic Mobile transformation is complete, the output is automatically opened in your default browser.
Customizing WebHelp Transformation Scenarios
To customize a DocBook WebHelp transformation scenario, you can edit various parameters, including the following most commonly used ones:
- args.default.language
- This parameter is used if the language is not
detected in the DITA map. The default value is
en-us
. - clean.output
- Deletes all files from the output folder before the
transformation is performed (only
no
andyes
values are valid and the default value isno
). - l10n.gentext.default.language
- This parameter is used to identify the
correct stemmer that differs from language to language. For example, for English the
value of this parameter is
en
or for French it isfr
, and so on. - use.stemming
- Controls whether or not you want to include stemming search
algorithms into the published output (default setting is
false
). - webhelp.copyright
- Adds a small copyright text that appears at the end of the Table of Contents pane.
- webhelp.custom.resources
- The file path to a directory that contains resources files. All files from this directory will be copied to the root of the WebHelp output.
- webhelp.favicon
- The file path that points to an image to be used as a favicon in the WebHelp output.
- webhelp.footer.file
- Path to an XML file that includes the footer content
for your WebHelp output pages. You can use this parameter to integrate social media
features (such as widgets for Facebook™, Twitter™, Google Analytics, or Google+™). The file must be
well-formed, each widget must be in separate
div
orspan
element, and the code for eachscript
element is included in an XML comment (also, the start and end tags for the XML comment must be on a separate line). The following code exert is an example for adding a Facebook™ widget:<div id="facebook"> <div id="fb-root"/> <script> <!-- (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); } (document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); --> </script> <div data-share="true" data-show-faces="true" data-action="like" data-layout="standard" class="fb-like"/> </div>
- webhelp.footer.include
- Specifies whether or not to include footer in each
WebHelp page. Possible values:
yes
,no
. If set tono
, no footer is added to the WebHelp pages. If set toyes
and thewebhelp.footer.file
parameter has a value, then the content of that file is used as footer. If thewebhelp.footer.file
has no value then the default Oxygen XML Developer footer is inserted in each WebHelp page. - webhelp.logo.image.target.url
- Specifies a target URL that is set on the logo image. When you click the logo image, you will be redirected to this address.
- webhelp.logo.image
- Specifies a path to an image displayed as a logo in the left side of the output header.
- webhelp.product.id (available only for Feedback-enabled systems)
-
This parameter specifies a short name for the documentation target, or product (for example,
mobile-phone-user-guide
,hvac-installation-guide
).Note
You can deploy documentation for multiple products on the same server.Restriction
The following characters are not allowed in the value of this parameter:< > / \ ' ( ) { } = ; * % + &
. - webhelp.product.version (available only for Feedback-enabled systems)
-
Specifies the documentation version number (for example, 1.0, 2.5, etc.). New user comments are bound to this version.
Note
Multiple documentation versions can be deployed on the same server.Restriction
The following characters are not allowed in the value of this parameter:< > / \ ' ( ) { } = ; * % + &
. - webhelp.search.japanese.dictionary
- The file path of the dictionary that will be used by the Kuromoji morphological engine that Oxygen XML Developer uses for indexing Japanese content in the WebHelp pages.
- webhelp.search.ranking
- If this parameter is set to
false
then the 5-star rating mechanism is no longer included in the search results that are displayed on the Search tab (default setting istrue
). - webhelp.skin.css
- Path to a CSS file that sets the style theme in the
output WebHelp pages. It can be one of the predefined skin CSS from the
OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\docbook\xsl\com.oxygenxml.webhelp\predefined-skins
directory, or it can be a custom skin CSS generated with the Oxygen Skin Builder web application.
For more information about all the DocBook transformation parameters, go to http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/index.html.