How do I convert textile to Eclipse help using ant?

Question

I've been using the Mylyn WikiText User Guide to learn how to convert textile files to Eclipse help but I also want to be able to do this using ant because, ultimately, I want to have many textile files contribute to a single textile file then convert to Eclipse help to enable multiple developers to create help pages with minimal conflicts.

The following ant script should take all *.textile files in the 'doc' folder and convert them to Eclipse help:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="helpwikitext" default="generate-help">
  <property name="wikitext.standalone" value="doc" />
  <path id="wikitext.classpath">
    <fileset dir="${wikitext.standalone}">
      <include name="org.eclipse.mylyn.wikitext.*core*.jar" />
    </fileset>
  </path>
  <taskdef classpathref="wikitext.classpath" resource="org/eclipse/mylyn/wikitext/core/util/anttask/tasks.properties" />
  <target name="generate-help" description="Generate Eclipse help from textile source">
    <wikitext-to-eclipse-help markupLanguage="Textile" multipleOutputFiles="true" navigationImages="true" helpPrefix="help">
      <fileset dir="${basedir}">
        <include name="doc/*.textile" />
      </fileset>
      <stylesheet url="styles/help.css" />
      <stylesheet url="styles/main.css" />
     </wikitext-to-eclipse-help>
  </target>
</project>

I get the following error:

[taskdef] Could not load definitions from resource org/eclipse/mylyn/wikitext/core/util/anttask/tasks.properties. It could not be found.
build.xml:11: Problem: failed to create task or type wikitext-to-eclipse-help

I'm fairly sure that I have all the Mylyn features installed so it looks like the ant script doesn't know where to find them. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

Do you have the wikitext standalone package installed in your doc directory?

That is what is expected as you define the path used by the taskdef like this:

<property name="wikitext.standalone" value="doc" />

I'll take a guess that your wikitext package is in a different dir.

You then use the same dir as the root for your textfiles. I would suggest to keep the wikitext standalone package separate from your textfiles.