Before you can configure XMLBuddy, you have to install it in Eclipse. You can download both the free and product versions of XMLBuddy from www.xmlbuddy.com. To install it in Eclipse, you need to copy the XMLBuddy product directory (for example, com.objfac.xmleditor_2.0_72) to the plugins directory of your Eclipse distribution.
XMLBuddy is an editor that can be installed in Eclipse that will allow you to create and edit DITA topics and maps. XMLBuddy has the capability to author, validate against the DITA DTDs, and check DITA topics and maps for well-formedness.
Once you have the XMLBuddy plug-in installed, it can be used to edit files with filetypes .xml. You need to follow the next steps so that XMLBuddy can be used to create and edit DITA topics and maps.
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To add file associations to Eclipse so that XMLBuddy can be used for files of types .dita and .ditamap, select to add both the .dita and .ditamap content types. Also add XMLBuddy as an associated editor for both the new content types.The File Associations dialog will look like this:
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To enable XMLBuddy to do code assist for DITA topics and maps, and to validate these files against the DITA DTDs, you need to define the location of the DTDs. You do this by selecting
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Here is example of the dialog used to add a new DTD definition to XMLBuddy:
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Make entries for each of the DITA topic and map types by filling in the DTD information:
After you have completed these steps, you can get help on using XMLBuddy by selecting .