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Bug 319423

Summary:	[Help] org.eclipse.help/HELP_DATA hidden will not remove non-top-level contents
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jeff Nevicosi <nevicosi>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	cgold, margolis
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Jeff Nevicosi

2010-07-09 14:34:33 EDT

Build ID:  I20100608-0911

1) Create root-level help contents with a format like:

 <toc label="Eclipse documentation">

 <topic label="Workbench basics">
	  <link toc="../org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/toc.xml" /> 
 	<enablement>
 	<with variable="platform">
  	<test property="org.eclipse.core.runtime.isBundleInstalled" args="org.eclipse.platform.doc.user" /> 
  	</with>
  	</enablement>
  </topic>
  
	<topic label="JDT plug-in developer guide">
		<link toc="../org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv/toc.xml" /> 
	</topic>

</toc>

2) In product plugin's help data, try to remove some of the sublevel contents:

<extensions>
	<tocOrder>
		<toc id="/my.product.plugin/eclipse_doc.xml"/>
	</tocOrder>
	<hidden>
	    <toc id="/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv/toc.xml"/>
	</hidden>

</extensions>

"Eclipse Documentation" book still contains the 2 declared subtopics.

Expected result:

"/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv/toc.xml" is removed, even though it is not a top-level object.

Comment 1 Ben Margolis

2012-06-02 21:53:55 EDT

the solution might be to ensure that the top of the helpData.xml file has this entry, including utf-8:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

am not yet sure; but here is the source of the idea:


http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/tree/244546/#page_top

Comment 2 Ben Margolis

2012-06-06 11:08:31 EDT

did not work.  bummer.

Comment 3 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:16:50 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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