Hi Tom, The DITA to Eclipse Help transformation is not linked in any way to using oXygen as an Eclipse plugin. This transformation is also available in the desktop version of oXygen. The oXygen Eclipse plugin is useful when for some reason you are already using Eclipse and thus you can use oXygen within the same environment, without the need to switch to a different application. For example there are a number of CMSes that are based on Eclipse and therefore they offer integrations with the oXygen Eclipse plugin to provide the XML authoring support together with the CMS functionality in the same application. Another use case is to combine the functionality of oXygen with a different product that is available as an Eclipse plugin. For example if you want Git support and oXygen in a single application you can get Eclipse + a Git plugin + oXygen Eclipse plugin and you have support for XML authoring/development and Git support in the same environment. Also, the same oXygen license allows you to use both the standalone and the Eclipse plugin so you do not need to decide in advance what license you need - you just use the best oXygen distribution that suits your needs at a specific moment. Best Regards, George -- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 7/23/14, 9:14 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:

I'm curious to know what the advantages are for using the Oxygen plugin for Eclipse instead of the standalone version of Oxygen? I'm not doing any deep development work, which might be where the advantages are. I see that, using the Oxygen plugin, you can transform content into Eclipse Help, but otherwise, I am not sure why I would want to use Oxygen inside of Eclipse.

Tom

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