Contexts

Identifier:
org.eclipse.help.contexts

Description:
For defining context-sensitive help for an individual plug-in.

Configuration Markup:

<!ELEMENT extension (contexts | contextProvider)+>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id    CDATA #IMPLIED

name  CDATA #IMPLIED>


<!ELEMENT contexts EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST contexts

file   CDATA #REQUIRED

plugin CDATA #IMPLIED>

a context-sensitive help contribution made by supplying an XML file



<!ELEMENT contextProvider EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST contextProvider

class CDATA #REQUIRED>

(since 3.3) a context-sensitive help contribution made by supplying a java class to generate the content at run-time



Examples:
The following is an example of using the contexts extension point:
(in file plugin.xml)


   <extension point="org.eclipse.help.contexts"> 
      <contexts file="xyzContexts.xml"/> 
   </extension> 

(in file xyzContexts.xml)

    <contexts>
      <context  id="generalContextId">
        <description> This is a sample F1 help string.</description>
        <topic href="contexts/RelatedContext1.html"  label="Help Related Topic 1"/>
        <topic href="contexts/RelatedContext2.html"  label="Help Related Topic 2"/>
      </context>
    </contexts>
 

Externalizing Strings The Context XML files can be translated and the resulting copy (with translated descriptions labels) should be placed in nl/<language>/<country> or nl/<language> directory.  The <language> and <country> stand for two letter language and country codes as used in locale codes.  For example, Traditional Chinese translations should be placed in the nl/zh/TW directory.  The nl/<language>/<country> directory has a higher priority than nl/<language>.  Only if no file is found in the nl/<language>/<country>, the file residing in nl/<language> will be used.  The the root directory of a plugin will be searched last.

The related topics contained in doc.zip can be localized by creating a doc.zip file with translated version of documents, and placing doc.zip in
nl/<language>/<country> or nl/<language> directory. The help system will look for the files under this directories before defaulting to plugin directory.

API Information:
An implementation of org.eclipse.help.AbstractContextProvider must be supplied if a contextProvider is used.

Supplied Implementation:
The default implementation of the help system UI supplied with the Eclipse platform fully supports this extension point.


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