Adding upstream version 1:7.0.4.upstream/1%7.0.4upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

18 files changed, 2627 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/helpcompiler/Executable_HelpIndexer.mk b/helpcompiler/Executable_HelpIndexer.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5fee9f7a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/Executable_HelpIndexer.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# -*- Mode: makefile-gmake; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t -*-
+#
+# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_Executable,HelpIndexer))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_use_libraries,HelpIndexer,\
+    sal \
+	helplinker \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_use_externals,HelpIndexer,\
+    expat \
+    libxslt \
+    libxml2 \
+    clucene \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_add_exception_objects,HelpIndexer,\
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer_main \
+))
+
+# vim:set noet sw=4 ts=4:
diff --git a/helpcompiler/Executable_HelpLinker.mk b/helpcompiler/Executable_HelpLinker.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2825aadf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/Executable_HelpLinker.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# -*- Mode: makefile-gmake; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t -*-
+#
+# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_Executable,HelpLinker))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_set_include,HelpLinker,\
+	-I$(SRCDIR)/helpcompiler/inc \
+	$$(INCLUDE) \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_use_libraries,HelpLinker,\
+    sal \
+    helplinker \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_use_externals,HelpLinker,\
+    boost_headers \
+    expat \
+    libxslt \
+    libxml2 \
+    clucene \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Executable_add_exception_objects,HelpLinker,\
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker_main \
+))
+
+# vim:set noet sw=4 ts=4:
diff --git a/helpcompiler/IwyuFilter_helpcompiler.yaml b/helpcompiler/IwyuFilter_helpcompiler.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e54447499
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/IwyuFilter_helpcompiler.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+assumeFilename: helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler.cxx
+blacklist:
+    helpcompiler/inc/HelpCompiler.hxx:
+    # Needed on WIN32
+    - o3tl/char16_t2wchar_t.hxx
+    helpcompiler/source/LuceneHelper.hxx:
+    # Better to keep the generic header, MSVC problem
+    - CLucene.h
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer.cxx:
+    # Better to keep the generic, details are order-sensitive
+    - CLucene.h
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpSearch.cxx:
+    # Better to keep the generic, details are order-sensitive
+    - CLucene.h
+    # Don't propose hxx -> h change in URE libs
+    - osl/thread.hxx
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker.cxx:
+    # Needed on WIN32
+    - o3tl/char16_t2wchar_t.hxx
diff --git a/helpcompiler/Library_helplinker.mk b/helpcompiler/Library_helplinker.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cd45eb020
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/Library_helplinker.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# -*- Mode: makefile-gmake; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t -*-
+#
+# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_Library,helplinker))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_set_include,helplinker,\
+	-I$(SRCDIR)/helpcompiler/inc \
+	$$(INCLUDE) \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_add_defs,helplinker,\
+    -DL10N_DLLIMPLEMENTATION \
+    -DHELPLINKER_DLLIMPLEMENTATION \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_use_libraries,helplinker,\
+    sal \
+    comphelper \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_use_internal_api,helplinker,\
+    udkapi \
+    offapi \
+))
+
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_use_externals,helplinker,\
+    boost_headers \
+    expat \
+    libxslt \
+    libxml2 \
+    clucene \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_add_exception_objects,helplinker,\
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler \
+    helpcompiler/source/LuceneHelper \
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer \
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpSearch \
+    helpcompiler/source/BasCodeTagger \
+))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Library_add_exception_objects,helplinker,\
+    helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker \
+))
+
+# vim: set noet sw=4 ts=4:
diff --git a/helpcompiler/Makefile b/helpcompiler/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0997e6284
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# -*- Mode: makefile-gmake; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t -*-
+#
+# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+
+module_directory:=$(dir $(realpath $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
+
+include $(module_directory)/../solenv/gbuild/partial_build.mk
+
+# vim: set noet sw=4 ts=4:
diff --git a/helpcompiler/Module_helpcompiler.mk b/helpcompiler/Module_helpcompiler.mk
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7bb53abf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/Module_helpcompiler.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# -*- Mode: makefile-gmake; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: t -*-
+#
+# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+#
+# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+#
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Module_Module,helpcompiler))
+
+$(eval $(call gb_Module_add_targets,helpcompiler,\
+    Executable_HelpIndexer \
+    Executable_HelpLinker \
+    Library_helplinker \
+))
+
+# vim:set noet sw=4 ts=4:
diff --git a/helpcompiler/inc/BasCodeTagger.hxx b/helpcompiler/inc/BasCodeTagger.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d897afb4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/inc/BasCodeTagger.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_HELPCOMPILER_INC_BASCODETAGGER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_HELPCOMPILER_INC_BASCODETAGGER_HXX
+
+#include <deque>
+#include <memory>
+#include <vector>
+#include <libxml/parser.h>
+#include <comphelper/syntaxhighlight.hxx>
+#include <helpcompiler/dllapi.h>
+
+class LibXmlTreeWalker;
+
+//!Tagger class.
+class BasicCodeTagger
+{
+  private:
+    xmlDocPtr             m_pDocument;
+    std::vector<xmlNodePtr> m_BasicCodeContainerTags;
+    std::unique_ptr<LibXmlTreeWalker>  m_pXmlTreeWalker;
+    SyntaxHighlighter     m_Highlighter;
+    bool m_bTaggingCompleted;
+    void tagParagraph( xmlNodePtr paragraph );
+    static xmlChar* getTypeString( TokenType tokenType );
+    void getBasicCodeContainerNodes();
+    void tagBasCodeParagraphs();
+
+  public:
+    enum TaggerException { NULL_DOCUMENT, EMPTY_DOCUMENT };
+    BasicCodeTagger( xmlDocPtr rootDoc );
+    ~BasicCodeTagger();
+    void tagBasicCodes();
+};
+
+//================LibXmlTreeWalker===========================================================
+
+class LibXmlTreeWalker
+{
+  private:
+    xmlNodePtr            m_pCurrentNode;
+    std::deque<xmlNodePtr> m_Queue; //!Queue for breath-first search
+
+  public:
+    LibXmlTreeWalker( xmlDocPtr doc );
+    void nextNode();
+    xmlNodePtr currentNode() { return m_pCurrentNode;}
+    bool end() const;
+    void ignoreCurrNodesChildren();
+};
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/inc/HelpCompiler.hxx b/helpcompiler/inc/HelpCompiler.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87390aeed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/inc/HelpCompiler.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_HELPCOMPILER_INC_HELPCOMPILER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_HELPCOMPILER_INC_HELPCOMPILER_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <deque>
+#include <memory>
+#include <string>
+#include <unordered_map>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <libxml/parser.h>
+
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <rtl/character.hxx>
+#include <osl/process.h>
+#include <osl/file.hxx>
+#include <osl/thread.h>
+#include <o3tl/char16_t2wchar_t.hxx>
+
+#include <helpcompiler/compilehelp.hxx>
+
+#if OSL_DEBUG_LEVEL > 2
+    #include <iostream>
+    #define HCDBG(foo) do { if (true) foo; } while(false)
+#else
+    #define HCDBG(foo) do { } while(false)
+#endif
+
+namespace fs
+{
+    enum convert { native };
+    class path
+    {
+    public:
+        OUString data;
+    public:
+        path() {}
+        path(const std::string &in, convert)
+        {
+            OUString sWorkingDir;
+            osl_getProcessWorkingDir(&sWorkingDir.pData);
+            OString tmp(in.c_str());
+            OUString ustrSystemPath(OStringToOUString(tmp, osl_getThreadTextEncoding()));
+            osl::File::getFileURLFromSystemPath(ustrSystemPath, data);
+            (void)osl::File::getAbsoluteFileURL(sWorkingDir, data, data);
+        }
+        path(const std::string &FileURL)
+        {
+            OString tmp(FileURL.c_str());
+            data = OStringToOUString(tmp, osl_getThreadTextEncoding());
+        }
+        std::string native_file_string() const
+        {
+            OUString ustrSystemPath;
+            osl::File::getSystemPathFromFileURL(data, ustrSystemPath);
+            OString tmp(OUStringToOString(ustrSystemPath, osl_getThreadTextEncoding()));
+            HCDBG(std::cerr << "native_file_string is " << tmp.getStr() << std::endl);
+            return std::string(tmp.getStr());
+        }
+#ifdef _WIN32
+        std::wstring native_file_string_w() const
+        {
+            OUString ustrSystemPath;
+            osl::File::getSystemPathFromFileURL(data, ustrSystemPath);
+            return std::wstring(o3tl::toW(ustrSystemPath.getStr()));
+        }
+#endif
+        std::string toUTF8() const
+        {
+            OString tmp(OUStringToOString(data, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8));
+            return std::string(tmp.getStr());
+        }
+        bool empty() const { return data.isEmpty(); }
+        path operator/(const std::string &in) const
+        {
+            path ret(*this);
+            HCDBG(std::cerr << "orig was " <<
+                OUStringToOString(ret.data, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8).getStr() << std::endl);
+            OString tmp(in.c_str());
+            OUString ustrSystemPath(OStringToOUString(tmp, osl_getThreadTextEncoding()));
+            ret.data += "/" + ustrSystemPath;
+            HCDBG(std::cerr << "final is " <<
+                OUStringToOString(ret.data, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8).getStr() << std::endl);
+            return ret;
+        }
+        void append(const char *in)
+        {
+            OString tmp(in);
+            OUString ustrSystemPath(OStringToOUString(tmp, osl_getThreadTextEncoding()));
+            data += ustrSystemPath;
+        }
+        void append(const std::string &in) { append(in.c_str()); }
+    };
+
+    void create_directory(const fs::path& indexDirName);
+    void copy(const fs::path &src, const fs::path &dest);
+}
+
+
+typedef std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> Stringtable;
+typedef std::deque<std::string> LinkedList;
+
+typedef std::unordered_map<std::string, LinkedList> Hashtable;
+
+class StreamTable
+{
+public:
+    std::string document_path;
+    std::string document_module;
+    std::string document_title;
+
+    std::unique_ptr< std::vector<std::string> > appl_hidlist;
+    std::unique_ptr<Hashtable> appl_keywords;
+    std::unique_ptr<Stringtable> appl_helptexts;
+    xmlDocPtr appl_doc;
+
+    StreamTable() :
+        appl_doc(nullptr)
+    {}
+    void dropappl()
+    {
+        appl_hidlist.reset();
+        appl_keywords.reset();
+        appl_helptexts.reset();
+        if (appl_doc) xmlFreeDoc(appl_doc);
+    }
+    ~StreamTable()
+    {
+        dropappl();
+    }
+};
+
+struct HelpProcessingException
+{
+    HelpProcessingErrorClass        m_eErrorClass;
+    std::string                     m_aErrorMsg;
+    std::string                     m_aXMLParsingFile;
+    int                             m_nXMLParsingLine;
+
+    HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass eErrorClass, const std::string& aErrorMsg )
+        : m_eErrorClass( eErrorClass )
+        , m_aErrorMsg( aErrorMsg )
+        , m_nXMLParsingLine( 0 )
+    {}
+    HelpProcessingException( const std::string& aErrorMsg, const std::string& aXMLParsingFile, int nXMLParsingLine )
+        : m_eErrorClass( HelpProcessingErrorClass::XmlParsing )
+        , m_aErrorMsg( aErrorMsg )
+        , m_aXMLParsingFile( aXMLParsingFile )
+        , m_nXMLParsingLine( nXMLParsingLine )
+    {}
+};
+
+class HelpCompiler
+{
+public:
+    HelpCompiler(StreamTable &streamTable,
+                const fs::path &in_inputFile,
+                const fs::path &in_src,
+                const fs::path &in_zipdir,
+                const fs::path &in_resCompactStylesheet,
+                const fs::path &in_resEmbStylesheet,
+                const std::string &in_module,
+                const std::string &in_lang,
+                bool in_bExtensionMode);
+    /// @throws HelpProcessingException
+    /// @throws BasicCodeTagger::TaggerException
+    void compile();
+private:
+    xmlDocPtr getSourceDocument(const fs::path &filePath);
+    static void tagBasicCodeExamples(xmlDocPtr doc);
+    xmlDocPtr compactXhpForJar(xmlDocPtr doc);
+    void saveXhpForJar(xmlDocPtr doc, const fs::path &filePath);
+    xmlNodePtr clone(xmlNodePtr node, const std::string& appl);
+    StreamTable &streamTable;
+    const fs::path inputFile, src, zipdir;
+    const std::string module, lang;
+    const fs::path resCompactStylesheet;
+    const fs::path resEmbStylesheet;
+    bool bExtensionMode;
+    std::string gui;
+};
+
+inline char tocharlower(char c)
+{
+    return static_cast<char>(
+        rtl::toAsciiLowerCase(static_cast<unsigned char>(c)));
+}
+
+#endif
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/inc/HelpLinker.hxx b/helpcompiler/inc/HelpLinker.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..24bcb9ebd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/inc/HelpLinker.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_HELPCOMPILER_INC_HELPLINKER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_HELPCOMPILER_INC_HELPLINKER_HXX
+
+#include <memory>
+#include <vector>
+#include <helpcompiler/dllapi.h>
+#include "HelpCompiler.hxx"
+#include <libxslt/xsltInternals.h>
+
+#ifdef AIX
+#    undef _THREAD_SAFE
+#endif
+
+class L10N_DLLPUBLIC IndexerPreProcessor
+{
+private:
+    fs::path          m_fsCaptionFilesDirName;
+    fs::path          m_fsContentFilesDirName;
+
+    xsltStylesheetPtr m_xsltStylesheetPtrCaption;
+    xsltStylesheetPtr m_xsltStylesheetPtrContent;
+
+public:
+    IndexerPreProcessor( const fs::path& fsIndexBaseDir,
+         const fs::path& idxCaptionStylesheet, const fs::path& idxContentStylesheet );
+    ~IndexerPreProcessor();
+
+    void processDocument( xmlDocPtr doc, const std::string& EncodedDocPath );
+};
+
+class HelpLinker
+{
+public:
+    /// @throws HelpProcessingException
+    L10N_DLLPUBLIC void main(std::vector<std::string> &args,
+              std::string const * pExtensionPath = nullptr,
+              std::string const * pDestination = nullptr,
+              const OUString* pOfficeHelpPath = nullptr );
+
+    HelpLinker()
+        : bExtensionMode(false)
+        , m_bUseLangRoot(true)
+        , m_bCreateIndex(true)
+    {}
+
+private:
+    Stringtable additionalFiles;
+    std::vector<std::string> helpFiles;
+    fs::path sourceRoot;
+    fs::path compactStylesheet;
+    fs::path embeddStylesheet;
+    fs::path idxCaptionStylesheet;
+    fs::path idxContentStylesheet;
+    fs::path zipdir;
+    fs::path outputFile;
+    std::string extsource;
+    std::string extdestination;
+    std::string module;
+    std::string lang;
+    std::string extensionPath;
+    std::string extensionDestination;
+    bool bExtensionMode;
+    fs::path indexDirParentName;
+    std::unique_ptr<IndexerPreProcessor> m_pIndexerPreProcessor;
+    bool m_bUseLangRoot;
+    bool m_bCreateIndex;
+    void initIndexerPreProcessor();
+    /// @throws HelpProcessingException
+    /// @throws BasicCodeTagger::TaggerException
+    void link();
+    static void addBookmark( FILE* pFile_DBHelp, std::string thishid,
+        const std::string& fileB, const std::string& anchorB,
+        const std::string& jarfileB, const std::string& titleB );
+};
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/BasCodeTagger.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/BasCodeTagger.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..deaaa0f52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/BasCodeTagger.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+#include <BasCodeTagger.hxx>
+#include <iostream>
+
+LibXmlTreeWalker::LibXmlTreeWalker( xmlDocPtr doc )
+{
+    if ( doc == nullptr )
+        throw BasicCodeTagger::NULL_DOCUMENT;
+    m_pCurrentNode = xmlDocGetRootElement( doc );
+    if ( m_pCurrentNode == nullptr )
+        throw BasicCodeTagger::EMPTY_DOCUMENT;
+    else if ( m_pCurrentNode->xmlChildrenNode != nullptr )
+        m_Queue.push_back( m_pCurrentNode->xmlChildrenNode );
+    nextNode();
+}
+
+void LibXmlTreeWalker::nextNode()
+{
+
+      //next node
+    if ( m_pCurrentNode->next == nullptr )
+    {
+        m_pCurrentNode = m_Queue.front();
+        m_Queue.pop_front();
+    }
+    else
+        m_pCurrentNode = m_pCurrentNode->next;
+    //queue children if they exist
+    if ( m_pCurrentNode->xmlChildrenNode != nullptr )
+        m_Queue.push_back( m_pCurrentNode->xmlChildrenNode );
+}
+
+void LibXmlTreeWalker::ignoreCurrNodesChildren()
+{
+    if ( m_pCurrentNode->xmlChildrenNode != nullptr )
+          m_Queue.pop_back();
+}
+
+bool LibXmlTreeWalker::end() const
+{
+    return m_pCurrentNode->next == nullptr && m_Queue.empty();
+}
+
+
+BasicCodeTagger::BasicCodeTagger( xmlDocPtr rootDoc ):
+    m_Highlighter(HighlighterLanguage::Basic)
+{
+    if ( rootDoc == nullptr )
+        throw NULL_DOCUMENT;
+    m_pDocument = rootDoc;
+    m_pXmlTreeWalker = nullptr;
+    m_bTaggingCompleted = false;
+}
+
+BasicCodeTagger::~BasicCodeTagger()
+{
+}
+//!Gathers all the <bascode> tag nodes from xml tree.
+/*!
+ *    Assumes m_pDocument is valid. Handles m_pXmlTreeWalker and m_BasicCodeContainerTags members.
+ */
+void BasicCodeTagger::getBasicCodeContainerNodes()
+{
+    xmlNodePtr currentNode;
+
+    m_BasicCodeContainerTags.clear();
+
+    m_pXmlTreeWalker.reset(new LibXmlTreeWalker( m_pDocument ));
+
+    currentNode = m_pXmlTreeWalker->currentNode();
+    if ( !( xmlStrcmp( currentNode->name, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("bascode") ) ) )
+    { //Found <bascode>
+        m_BasicCodeContainerTags.push_back( currentNode ); //it goes to the end of the list
+    }
+    while ( !m_pXmlTreeWalker->end() )
+    {
+        m_pXmlTreeWalker->nextNode();
+        if ( !( xmlStrcmp( m_pXmlTreeWalker->currentNode()->name, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("bascode") ) ) )
+        { //Found <bascode>
+            m_BasicCodeContainerTags.push_back( m_pXmlTreeWalker->currentNode() ); //it goes to the end of the list
+            m_pXmlTreeWalker->ignoreCurrNodesChildren();
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+//! Extracts Basic Codes contained in <bascode> tags.
+/*!
+ *  For each <bascode> this method iterates through it's <paragraph> tags and "inserts" <item> tags according
+ *  to the Basic code syntax found in that paragraph.
+ */
+void BasicCodeTagger::tagBasCodeParagraphs()
+{
+    //helper variables
+    xmlNodePtr currParagraph;
+    for (auto const& currBascodeNode : m_BasicCodeContainerTags)
+    {
+        currParagraph = currBascodeNode->xmlChildrenNode; //first <paragraph>
+        while ( currParagraph != nullptr )
+        {
+            tagParagraph( currParagraph );
+            currParagraph=currParagraph->next;
+        }
+    }
+    m_BasicCodeContainerTags.clear();
+}
+
+//! Used by tagBasCodeParagraphs(). It does the work on the current paragraph containing Basic code.
+void BasicCodeTagger::tagParagraph( xmlNodePtr paragraph )
+{
+    //1. get paragraph text
+    xmlChar* codeSnippet;
+    codeSnippet = xmlNodeListGetString( m_pDocument, paragraph->xmlChildrenNode, 1 );
+    if ( codeSnippet == nullptr )
+    {
+        return; //no text, nothing more to do here
+    }
+    //2. delete every child from paragraph (except attributes)
+    xmlNodePtr curNode = paragraph->xmlChildrenNode;
+    xmlNodePtr sibling;
+    while ( curNode != nullptr )
+    {
+        sibling = curNode->next;
+        xmlUnlinkNode( curNode );
+        xmlFreeNode( curNode );
+        curNode = sibling;
+    }
+
+    //3. create new paragraph content
+    OUString strLine( reinterpret_cast<const char*>(codeSnippet),
+                                strlen(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(codeSnippet)),
+                                RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8 );
+    std::vector<HighlightPortion> portions;
+    m_Highlighter.getHighlightPortions( strLine, portions );
+    for (auto const& portion : portions)
+    {
+        OString sToken(OUStringToOString(strLine.copy(portion.nBegin, portion.nEnd-portion.nBegin), RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8));
+        xmlNodePtr text = xmlNewText(reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>(sToken.getStr()));
+        if ( portion.tokenType != TokenType::Whitespace )
+        {
+            xmlChar* typeStr = getTypeString( portion.tokenType );
+            curNode = xmlNewTextChild( paragraph, nullptr, reinterpret_cast<xmlChar const *>("item"), nullptr );
+            xmlNewProp( curNode, reinterpret_cast<xmlChar const *>("type"), typeStr );
+            xmlAddChild( curNode, text );
+            xmlFree( typeStr );
+        }
+        else
+            xmlAddChild( paragraph, text );
+    }
+    xmlFree( codeSnippet );
+}
+
+//! Manages tagging process.
+/*!
+ *    This is the "main" function of BasicCodeTagger.
+ */
+void BasicCodeTagger::tagBasicCodes()
+{
+    if ( m_bTaggingCompleted )
+        return;
+    //gather <bascode> nodes
+    try
+    {
+        getBasicCodeContainerNodes();
+    }
+    catch (TaggerException &ex)
+    {
+          std::cout << "BasCodeTagger error occurred. Error code:" << ex << std::endl;
+    }
+
+    //tag basic code paragraphs in <bascode> tag
+    tagBasCodeParagraphs();
+    m_bTaggingCompleted = true;
+}
+
+//! Converts SyntaxHighlighter's TokenTypes enum to a type string for <item type=... >
+xmlChar* BasicCodeTagger::getTypeString( TokenType tokenType )
+{
+    const char* str;
+    switch ( tokenType )
+    {
+        case TokenType::Unknown :
+            str = "unknown";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::Identifier :
+            str = "identifier";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::Whitespace :
+            str = "whitespace";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::Number :
+            str = "number";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::String :
+            str = "string";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::EOL :
+            str = "eol";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::Comment :
+            str = "comment";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::Error :
+            str = "error";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::Operator :
+            str = "operator";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::Keywords :
+            str = "keyword";
+            break;
+        case TokenType::Parameter :
+            str = "parameter";
+            break;
+        default :
+            str = "unknown";
+            break;
+    }
+    return xmlCharStrdup( str );
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..678cf8ee0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/HelpCompiler.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,510 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <memory>
+#include <HelpCompiler.hxx>
+#include <BasCodeTagger.hxx>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <libxslt/xsltInternals.h>
+#include <libxslt/transform.h>
+#include <osl/thread.hxx>
+#include <chrono>
+#include <rtl/character.hxx>
+#include <sal/log.hxx>
+
+HelpCompiler::HelpCompiler(StreamTable &in_streamTable, const fs::path &in_inputFile,
+    const fs::path &in_src, const fs::path &in_zipdir, const fs::path &in_resCompactStylesheet,
+    const fs::path &in_resEmbStylesheet, const std::string &in_module, const std::string &in_lang,
+    bool in_bExtensionMode)
+    : streamTable(in_streamTable), inputFile(in_inputFile),
+    src(in_src), zipdir(in_zipdir), module(in_module), lang(in_lang), resCompactStylesheet(in_resCompactStylesheet),
+    resEmbStylesheet(in_resEmbStylesheet), bExtensionMode( in_bExtensionMode )
+{
+    xmlKeepBlanksDefaultValue = 0;
+    char* os = getenv("OS");
+    if (os)
+    {
+        gui = (strcmp(os, "WNT") ? "UNIX" : "WIN");
+        gui = (strcmp(os, "MACOSX") ? gui : "MAC");
+    }
+}
+
+void HelpCompiler::tagBasicCodeExamples( xmlDocPtr doc )
+{
+    try
+    {
+        BasicCodeTagger bct( doc );
+        bct.tagBasicCodes();
+    }
+    catch ( BasicCodeTagger::TaggerException &ex )
+    {
+        if ( ex != BasicCodeTagger::EMPTY_DOCUMENT )
+            throw;
+    }
+}
+
+xmlDocPtr HelpCompiler::compactXhpForJar( xmlDocPtr doc )
+{
+    static xsltStylesheetPtr compact = nullptr;
+    static const char *params[2 + 1];
+    params[0] = nullptr;
+    xmlDocPtr compacted;
+
+    if (!compact)
+    {
+        compact = xsltParseStylesheetFile(reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar *>(resCompactStylesheet.native_file_string().c_str()));
+    }
+
+    compacted = xsltApplyStylesheet(compact, doc, params);
+    return compacted;
+}
+
+void HelpCompiler::saveXhpForJar( xmlDocPtr doc, const fs::path &filePath )
+{
+    //save processed xhp document in ziptmp<module>_<lang>/text directory
+#ifdef _WIN32
+    std::string pathSep = "\\";
+#else
+    std::string pathSep = "/";
+#endif
+    const std::string& sourceXhpPath = filePath.native_file_string();
+    std::string zipdirPath = zipdir.native_file_string();
+    const std::string srcdirPath( src.native_file_string() );
+    // srcdirPath contains trailing /, but we want the file path with / at the beginning
+    std::string jarXhpPath = sourceXhpPath.substr( srcdirPath.length() - 1 );
+    std::string xhpFileName = jarXhpPath.substr( jarXhpPath.rfind( pathSep ) + 1 );
+    jarXhpPath = jarXhpPath.substr( 0, jarXhpPath.rfind( pathSep ) );
+    if ( !jarXhpPath.compare( 1, 11, "text" + pathSep + "sbasic" ) )
+    {
+        tagBasicCodeExamples( doc );
+    }
+    if ( !jarXhpPath.compare( 1, 11, "text" + pathSep + "shared" ) )
+    {
+        const size_t pos = zipdirPath.find( "ziptmp" );
+        if ( pos != std::string::npos )
+            zipdirPath.replace( pos + 6, module.length(), "shared" );
+    }
+    xmlDocPtr compacted = compactXhpForJar( doc );
+    fs::create_directory( fs::path( zipdirPath + jarXhpPath, fs::native ) );
+    if ( -1 == xmlSaveFormatFileEnc( (zipdirPath + jarXhpPath + pathSep + xhpFileName).c_str(), compacted, "utf-8", 0 ) )
+        std::cerr << "Error saving file to " << (zipdirPath + jarXhpPath + pathSep + xhpFileName).c_str() << std::endl;
+    xmlFreeDoc(compacted);
+}
+
+xmlDocPtr HelpCompiler::getSourceDocument(const fs::path &filePath)
+{
+    xmlDocPtr res;
+    if (bExtensionMode)
+    {
+        // this is the mode when used within LibreOffice for importing help
+        // bundled with an extension
+        res = xmlParseFile(filePath.native_file_string().c_str());
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        // this is the mode when used at build time to generate LibreOffice
+        // help from its xhp source
+        static xsltStylesheetPtr cur = nullptr;
+        static const char *params[2 + 1];
+        if (!cur)
+        {
+            static std::string fsroot('\'' + src.toUTF8() + '\'');
+
+            cur = xsltParseStylesheetFile(reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar *>(resEmbStylesheet.native_file_string().c_str()));
+
+            int nbparams = 0;
+            params[nbparams++] = "fsroot";
+            params[nbparams++] = fsroot.c_str();
+            params[nbparams] = nullptr;
+        }
+        xmlDocPtr doc = xmlParseFile(filePath.native_file_string().c_str());
+
+        saveXhpForJar( doc, filePath );
+
+        res = xsltApplyStylesheet(cur, doc, params);
+        xmlFreeDoc(doc);
+    }
+    return res;
+}
+
+// returns a node representing the whole stuff compiled for the current
+// application.
+xmlNodePtr HelpCompiler::clone(xmlNodePtr node, const std::string& appl)
+{
+    xmlNodePtr root = xmlCopyNode(node, 2);
+    if (node->xmlChildrenNode)
+    {
+        xmlNodePtr list = node->xmlChildrenNode;
+        while (list)
+        {
+            if (strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(list->name), "switchinline") == 0 || strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(list->name), "switch") == 0)
+            {
+                std::string tmp="";
+                xmlChar * prop = xmlGetProp(list, reinterpret_cast<xmlChar const *>("select"));
+                if (prop != nullptr)
+                {
+                    if (strcmp(reinterpret_cast<char *>(prop), "sys") == 0)
+                    {
+                        tmp = gui;
+                    }
+                    else if (strcmp(reinterpret_cast<char *>(prop), "appl") == 0)
+                    {
+                        tmp = appl;
+                    }
+                    xmlFree(prop);
+                }
+                if (tmp.compare("") != 0)
+                {
+                    bool isCase=false;
+                    xmlNodePtr caseList=list->xmlChildrenNode;
+                    while (caseList)
+                    {
+                        xmlChar *select = xmlGetProp(caseList, reinterpret_cast<xmlChar const *>("select"));
+                        if (select)
+                        {
+                            if (!strcmp(reinterpret_cast<char*>(select), tmp.c_str()) && !isCase)
+                            {
+                                isCase=true;
+                                xmlNodePtr clp = caseList->xmlChildrenNode;
+                                while (clp)
+                                {
+                                    xmlAddChild(root, clone(clp, appl));
+                                    clp = clp->next;
+                                }
+                            }
+                            xmlFree(select);
+                        }
+                        else
+                        {
+                            if ((strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(caseList->name), "defaultinline") != 0) && (strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(caseList->name), "default") != 0))
+                            {
+                                xmlAddChild(root, clone(caseList, appl));
+                            }
+                            else
+                            {
+                                if (!isCase)
+                                {
+                                    xmlNodePtr clp = caseList->xmlChildrenNode;
+                                    while (clp)
+                                    {
+                                        xmlAddChild(root, clone(clp, appl));
+                                        clp = clp->next;
+                                    }
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                        caseList = caseList->next;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                xmlAddChild(root, clone(list, appl));
+            }
+            list = list->next;
+        }
+    }
+    return root;
+}
+
+namespace {
+
+class myparser
+{
+public:
+    std::string documentId;
+    std::string fileName;
+    std::string title;
+    std::unique_ptr< std::vector<std::string> > hidlist;
+    std::unique_ptr<Hashtable> keywords;
+    std::unique_ptr<Stringtable> helptexts;
+private:
+    std::vector<std::string> extendedHelpText;
+public:
+    myparser(const std::string &indocumentId, const std::string &infileName,
+        const std::string &intitle) : documentId(indocumentId), fileName(infileName),
+        title(intitle)
+    {
+        hidlist.reset(new std::vector<std::string>);
+        keywords.reset(new Hashtable);
+        helptexts.reset(new Stringtable);
+    }
+    void traverse( xmlNodePtr parentNode );
+private:
+    std::string dump(xmlNodePtr node);
+};
+
+}
+
+std::string myparser::dump(xmlNodePtr node)
+{
+    std::string app;
+    if (node->xmlChildrenNode)
+    {
+        xmlNodePtr list = node->xmlChildrenNode;
+        while (list)
+        {
+            app += dump(list);
+            list = list->next;
+        }
+    }
+    if (xmlNodeIsText(node))
+    {
+        xmlChar *pContent = xmlNodeGetContent(node);
+        app += std::string(reinterpret_cast<char*>(pContent));
+        xmlFree(pContent);
+    }
+    return app;
+}
+
+static void trim(std::string& str)
+{
+    std::string::size_type pos = str.find_last_not_of(' ');
+    if(pos != std::string::npos)
+    {
+        str.erase(pos + 1);
+        pos = str.find_first_not_of(' ');
+        if(pos != std::string::npos)
+            str.erase(0, pos);
+    }
+    else
+        str.clear();
+}
+
+void myparser::traverse( xmlNodePtr parentNode )
+{
+    // traverse all nodes that belong to the parent
+    xmlNodePtr test ;
+    for (test = parentNode->xmlChildrenNode; test; test = test->next)
+    {
+        if (fileName.empty() && !strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(test->name), "filename"))
+        {
+            xmlNodePtr node = test->xmlChildrenNode;
+            if (xmlNodeIsText(node))
+            {
+                xmlChar *pContent = xmlNodeGetContent(node);
+                fileName = std::string(reinterpret_cast<char*>(pContent));
+                xmlFree(pContent);
+            }
+        }
+        else if (title.empty() && !strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(test->name), "title"))
+        {
+            title = dump(test);
+            if (title.empty())
+                title = "<notitle>";
+        }
+        else if (!strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(test->name), "bookmark"))
+        {
+            xmlChar *branchxml = xmlGetProp(test, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("branch"));
+            if (branchxml == nullptr) {
+                throw HelpProcessingException(
+                    HelpProcessingErrorClass::XmlParsing, "bookmark lacks branch attribute");
+            }
+            std::string branch(reinterpret_cast<char*>(branchxml));
+            xmlFree (branchxml);
+            xmlChar *idxml = xmlGetProp(test, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("id"));
+            if (idxml == nullptr) {
+                throw HelpProcessingException(
+                    HelpProcessingErrorClass::XmlParsing, "bookmark lacks id attribute");
+            }
+            std::string anchor(reinterpret_cast<char*>(idxml));
+            xmlFree (idxml);
+
+            if (branch.compare(0, 3, "hid") == 0)
+            {
+                size_t index = branch.find('/');
+                if (index != std::string::npos)
+                {
+                    auto hid = branch.substr(1 + index);
+                    // one shall serve as a documentId
+                    if (documentId.empty())
+                        documentId = hid;
+                    extendedHelpText.push_back(hid);
+                    HCDBG(std::cerr << "hid pushback" << (anchor.empty() ? hid : hid + "#" + anchor) << std::endl);
+                    hidlist->push_back( anchor.empty() ? hid : hid + "#" + anchor);
+                }
+                else
+                    continue;
+            }
+            else if (branch.compare("index") == 0)
+            {
+                LinkedList ll;
+
+                for (xmlNodePtr nd = test->xmlChildrenNode; nd; nd = nd->next)
+                {
+                    if (strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(nd->name), "bookmark_value"))
+                        continue;
+
+                    std::string embedded;
+                    xmlChar *embeddedxml = xmlGetProp(nd, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("embedded"));
+                    if (embeddedxml)
+                    {
+                        embedded = std::string(reinterpret_cast<char*>(embeddedxml));
+                        xmlFree (embeddedxml);
+                        std::transform (embedded.begin(), embedded.end(),
+                            embedded.begin(), tocharlower);
+                    }
+
+                    bool isEmbedded = !embedded.empty() && embedded.compare("true") == 0;
+                    if (isEmbedded)
+                        continue;
+
+                    std::string keyword = dump(nd);
+                    size_t keywordSem = keyword.find(';');
+                    if (keywordSem != std::string::npos)
+                    {
+                        std::string tmppre =
+                                    keyword.substr(0,keywordSem);
+                        trim(tmppre);
+                        std::string tmppos =
+                                    keyword.substr(1+keywordSem);
+                        trim(tmppos);
+                        keyword = tmppre + ";" + tmppos;
+                    }
+                    ll.push_back(keyword);
+                }
+                if (!ll.empty())
+                    (*keywords)[anchor] = ll;
+            }
+            else if (branch.compare("contents") == 0)
+            {
+                // currently not used
+            }
+        }
+        else if (!strcmp(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(test->name), "ahelp"))
+        {
+            //tool-tip
+            std::string text = dump(test);
+            std::replace(text.begin(), text.end(), '\n', ' ');
+            trim(text);
+
+            //tool-tip target
+            std::string hidstr(".");  //. == previous seen hid bookmarks
+            xmlChar *hid = xmlGetProp(test, reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar*>("hid"));
+            if (hid)
+            {
+                hidstr = std::string(reinterpret_cast<char*>(hid));
+                xmlFree (hid);
+            }
+
+            if (hidstr != "." && !hidstr.empty())  //simple case of explicitly named target
+            {
+                assert(!hidstr.empty());
+                (*helptexts)[hidstr] = text;
+            }
+            else //apply to list of "current" hids determined by recent bookmarks that have hid in their branch
+            {
+                //TODO: make these asserts and flush out all our broken help ids
+                SAL_WARN_IF(hidstr.empty(), "helpcompiler", "hid='' for text:" << text);
+                SAL_WARN_IF(!hidstr.empty() && extendedHelpText.empty(), "helpcompiler", "hid='.' with no hid bookmark branches in file: " << fileName + " for text: " << text);
+                for (const std::string& name : extendedHelpText)
+                {
+                    (*helptexts)[name] = text;
+                }
+            }
+            extendedHelpText.clear();
+        }
+        // traverse children
+        traverse(test);
+    }
+}
+
+void HelpCompiler::compile()
+{
+    // we now have the jaroutputstream, which will contain the document.
+    // now determine the document as a dom tree in variable docResolved
+
+    xmlDocPtr docResolvedOrg = getSourceDocument(inputFile);
+
+    // now add path to the document
+    // resolve the dom
+
+    if (!docResolvedOrg)
+    {
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "ERROR: file not existing: " << inputFile.native_file_string().c_str() << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+
+    std::string documentId;
+    std::string fileName;
+    std::string title;
+    // returns a clone of the document with switch-cases resolved
+    std::string appl = module.substr(1);
+    for (char & i : appl)
+    {
+        i=rtl::toAsciiUpperCase(static_cast<unsigned char>(i));
+    }
+    xmlNodePtr docResolved = clone(xmlDocGetRootElement(docResolvedOrg), appl);
+    myparser aparser(documentId, fileName, title);
+    aparser.traverse(docResolved);
+    documentId = aparser.documentId;
+    fileName = aparser.fileName;
+    title = aparser.title;
+
+    HCDBG(std::cerr << documentId << " : " << fileName << " : " << title << std::endl);
+
+    xmlDocPtr docResolvedDoc = xmlCopyDoc(docResolvedOrg, false);
+    xmlDocSetRootElement(docResolvedDoc, docResolved);
+
+    streamTable.dropappl();
+    streamTable.appl_doc = docResolvedDoc;
+    streamTable.appl_hidlist = std::move(aparser.hidlist);
+    streamTable.appl_helptexts = std::move(aparser.helptexts);
+    streamTable.appl_keywords = std::move(aparser.keywords);
+
+    streamTable.document_path = fileName;
+    streamTable.document_title = title;
+    std::string actMod = module;
+
+    if ( !bExtensionMode && !fileName.empty())
+    {
+        if (fileName.compare(0, 6, "/text/") == 0)
+        {
+            actMod = fileName.substr(strlen("/text/"));
+            actMod = actMod.substr(0, actMod.find('/'));
+        }
+    }
+    streamTable.document_module = actMod;
+    xmlFreeDoc(docResolvedOrg);
+}
+
+namespace fs
+{
+    void create_directory(const fs::path& indexDirName)
+    {
+        HCDBG(
+            std::cerr << "creating " <<
+            OUStringToOString(indexDirName.data, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8).getStr()
+            << std::endl
+           );
+        osl::Directory::createPath(indexDirName.data);
+    }
+
+    void copy(const fs::path &src, const fs::path &dest)
+    {
+        osl::File::copy(src.data, dest.data);
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dca372ea3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+#include <helpcompiler/HelpIndexer.hxx>
+
+#include <rtl/string.hxx>
+#include <rtl/uri.hxx>
+#include <o3tl/runtimetooustring.hxx>
+#include <osl/file.hxx>
+#include <osl/thread.h>
+#include <memory>
+
+#include "LuceneHelper.hxx"
+#include <CLucene.h>
+#include <CLucene/analysis/LanguageBasedAnalyzer.h>
+
+using namespace lucene::document;
+
+HelpIndexer::HelpIndexer(OUString const &lang, OUString const &module,
+    OUString const &srcDir, OUString const &outDir)
+    : d_lang(lang), d_module(module)
+{
+    d_indexDir = outDir + OUStringChar('/') + module + ".idxl";
+    d_captionDir = srcDir + "/caption";
+    d_contentDir = srcDir + "/content";
+}
+
+bool HelpIndexer::indexDocuments()
+{
+    if (!scanForFiles())
+        return false;
+
+    try
+    {
+        OUString sLang = d_lang.getToken(0, '-');
+        bool bUseCJK = sLang == "ja" || sLang == "ko" || sLang == "zh";
+
+        // Construct the analyzer appropriate for the given language
+        std::unique_ptr<lucene::analysis::Analyzer> analyzer;
+        if (bUseCJK)
+            analyzer.reset(new lucene::analysis::LanguageBasedAnalyzer(L"cjk"));
+        else
+            analyzer.reset(new lucene::analysis::standard::StandardAnalyzer());
+
+        OUString ustrSystemPath;
+        osl::File::getSystemPathFromFileURL(d_indexDir, ustrSystemPath);
+
+        OString indexDirStr = OUStringToOString(ustrSystemPath, osl_getThreadTextEncoding());
+        lucene::index::IndexWriter writer(indexDirStr.getStr(), analyzer.get(), true);
+        //Double limit of tokens allowed, otherwise we'll get a too-many-tokens
+        //exception for ja help. Could alternative ignore the exception and get
+        //truncated results as per java-Lucene apparently
+        writer.setMaxFieldLength(lucene::index::IndexWriter::DEFAULT_MAX_FIELD_LENGTH*2);
+
+        // Index the identified help files
+        Document doc;
+        for (auto const& elem : d_files)
+        {
+            helpDocument(elem, &doc);
+            writer.addDocument(&doc);
+            doc.clear();
+        }
+        writer.optimize();
+
+        // Optimize the index
+        writer.optimize();
+    }
+    catch (CLuceneError &e)
+    {
+        d_error = o3tl::runtimeToOUString(e.what());
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+
+bool HelpIndexer::scanForFiles() {
+    if (!scanForFiles(d_contentDir)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    if (!scanForFiles(d_captionDir)) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+}
+
+bool HelpIndexer::scanForFiles(OUString const & path) {
+
+    osl::Directory dir(path);
+    if (osl::FileBase::E_None != dir.open()) {
+        d_error = "Error reading directory " + path;
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    osl::DirectoryItem item;
+    osl::FileStatus fileStatus(osl_FileStatus_Mask_FileName | osl_FileStatus_Mask_Type);
+    while (dir.getNextItem(item) == osl::FileBase::E_None) {
+        item.getFileStatus(fileStatus);
+        if (fileStatus.getFileType() == osl::FileStatus::Regular) {
+            d_files.insert(fileStatus.getFileName());
+        }
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+void HelpIndexer::helpDocument(OUString const & fileName, Document *doc) const {
+    // Add the help path as an indexed, untokenized field.
+
+    OUString path = "#HLP#" + d_module + "/" + fileName;
+    std::vector<TCHAR> aPath(OUStringToTCHARVec(path));
+    doc->add(*_CLNEW Field(_T("path"), aPath.data(), int(Field::STORE_YES) | int(Field::INDEX_UNTOKENIZED)));
+
+    OUString sEscapedFileName =
+        rtl::Uri::encode(fileName,
+        rtl_UriCharClassUric, rtl_UriEncodeIgnoreEscapes, RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8);
+
+    // Add the caption as a field.
+    OUString captionPath = d_captionDir + "/" + sEscapedFileName;
+    doc->add(*_CLNEW Field(_T("caption"), helpFileReader(captionPath), int(Field::STORE_NO) | int(Field::INDEX_TOKENIZED)));
+
+    // Add the content as a field.
+    OUString contentPath = d_contentDir + "/" + sEscapedFileName;
+    doc->add(*_CLNEW Field(_T("content"), helpFileReader(contentPath), int(Field::STORE_NO) | int(Field::INDEX_TOKENIZED)));
+}
+
+lucene::util::Reader *HelpIndexer::helpFileReader(OUString const & path) {
+    osl::File file(path);
+    if (osl::FileBase::E_None == file.open(osl_File_OpenFlag_Read)) {
+        file.close();
+        OUString ustrSystemPath;
+        osl::File::getSystemPathFromFileURL(path, ustrSystemPath);
+        OString pathStr = OUStringToOString(ustrSystemPath, osl_getThreadTextEncoding());
+        return _CLNEW lucene::util::FileReader(pathStr.getStr(), "UTF-8");
+    } else {
+        return _CLNEW lucene::util::StringReader(L"");
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer_main.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer_main.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3ad47bbf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/HelpIndexer_main.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+#include <helpcompiler/HelpIndexer.hxx>
+#include <osl/file.hxx>
+#include <osl/process.h>
+#include <osl/thread.h>
+#include <string>
+#include <iostream>
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+    try
+    {
+        const std::string aLang("-lang");
+        const std::string aModule("-mod");
+        const std::string aDir("-dir");
+
+        std::string lang;
+        std::string module;
+        std::string dir;
+
+        bool error = false;
+        for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
+            if (aLang.compare(argv[i]) == 0) {
+                if (i + 1 < argc) {
+                    lang = argv[++i];
+                } else {
+                    error = true;
+                }
+            } else if (aModule.compare(argv[i]) == 0) {
+                if (i + 1 < argc) {
+                    module = argv[++i];
+                } else {
+                    error = true;
+                }
+            } else if (aDir.compare(argv[i]) == 0) {
+                if (i + 1 < argc) {
+                    dir = argv[++i];
+                } else {
+                    error = true;
+                }
+            } else {
+                error = true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (error) {
+            std::cerr << "Error parsing command-line arguments" << std::endl;
+        }
+
+        if (error || lang.empty() || module.empty() || dir.empty()) {
+            std::cerr << "Usage: HelpIndexer -lang ISOLangCode -mod HelpModule -dir Dir" << std::endl;
+            return 1;
+        }
+
+        OUString sDir;
+
+        osl::File::getFileURLFromSystemPath(
+            OUString(dir.c_str(), dir.size(), osl_getThreadTextEncoding()),
+            sDir);
+
+        OUString cwd;
+        osl_getProcessWorkingDir(&cwd.pData);
+
+        (void)osl::File::getAbsoluteFileURL(cwd, sDir, sDir);
+
+        HelpIndexer indexer(
+            OUString(lang.c_str(), lang.size(), osl_getThreadTextEncoding()),
+            OUString(module.c_str(), module.size(), osl_getThreadTextEncoding()),
+            sDir, sDir);
+
+        if (!indexer.indexDocuments()) {
+            std::cerr << indexer.getErrorMessage() << std::endl;
+            return 2;
+        }
+        return 0;
+    }
+    catch (std::exception& e)
+    {
+        std::cerr << "failure: " << e.what() << std::endl;
+        return 2;
+    }
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..46a9fac2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,942 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#include <HelpCompiler.hxx>
+#include <HelpLinker.hxx>
+
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <fstream>
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include <libxslt/transform.h>
+
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <o3tl/char16_t2wchar_t.hxx>
+#include <sal/log.hxx>
+
+#include <expat.h>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace {
+FILE* fopen_impl(const fs::path& rPath, const char* szMode)
+{
+#ifdef _WIN32     //We need _wfopen to support long file paths on Windows XP
+    return _wfopen(rPath.native_file_string_w().c_str(), o3tl::toW(OUString::createFromAscii(szMode).getStr()));
+#else
+    return fopen(rPath.native_file_string().c_str(), szMode);
+#endif
+}
+}
+
+IndexerPreProcessor::IndexerPreProcessor
+    ( const fs::path& fsIndexBaseDir,
+      const fs::path& idxCaptionStylesheet, const fs::path& idxContentStylesheet )
+{
+    m_fsCaptionFilesDirName = fsIndexBaseDir / "caption";
+    fs::create_directory( m_fsCaptionFilesDirName );
+
+    m_fsContentFilesDirName = fsIndexBaseDir / "content";
+    fs::create_directory( m_fsContentFilesDirName );
+
+    m_xsltStylesheetPtrCaption = xsltParseStylesheetFile
+        (reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar *>(idxCaptionStylesheet.native_file_string().c_str()));
+    m_xsltStylesheetPtrContent = xsltParseStylesheetFile
+        (reinterpret_cast<const xmlChar *>(idxContentStylesheet.native_file_string().c_str()));
+}
+
+IndexerPreProcessor::~IndexerPreProcessor()
+{
+    if( m_xsltStylesheetPtrCaption )
+        xsltFreeStylesheet( m_xsltStylesheetPtrCaption );
+    if( m_xsltStylesheetPtrContent )
+        xsltFreeStylesheet( m_xsltStylesheetPtrContent );
+}
+
+static std::string getEncodedPath( const std::string& Path )
+{
+    OString aOStr_Path( Path.c_str() );
+    OUString aOUStr_Path( OStringToOUString
+        ( aOStr_Path, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() ) );
+    OUString aPathURL;
+    osl::File::getFileURLFromSystemPath( aOUStr_Path, aPathURL );
+    OString aOStr_PathURL( OUStringToOString
+        ( aPathURL, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() ) );
+    std::string aStdStr_PathURL( aOStr_PathURL.getStr() );
+    return aStdStr_PathURL;
+}
+
+void IndexerPreProcessor::processDocument
+    ( xmlDocPtr doc, const std::string &EncodedDocPath )
+{
+    std::string aStdStr_EncodedDocPathURL = getEncodedPath( EncodedDocPath );
+
+    if( m_xsltStylesheetPtrCaption )
+    {
+        xmlDocPtr resCaption = xsltApplyStylesheet( m_xsltStylesheetPtrCaption, doc, nullptr );
+        xmlNodePtr pResNodeCaption = resCaption->xmlChildrenNode;
+        if( pResNodeCaption )
+        {
+            fs::path fsCaptionPureTextFile_docURL = m_fsCaptionFilesDirName / aStdStr_EncodedDocPathURL;
+            FILE* pFile_docURL = fopen_impl( fsCaptionPureTextFile_docURL, "w" );
+            if( pFile_docURL )
+            {
+                fprintf( pFile_docURL, "%s\n", pResNodeCaption->content );
+                fclose( pFile_docURL );
+            }
+        }
+        xmlFreeDoc(resCaption);
+    }
+
+    if( !m_xsltStylesheetPtrContent )
+        return;
+
+    xmlDocPtr resContent = xsltApplyStylesheet( m_xsltStylesheetPtrContent, doc, nullptr );
+    xmlNodePtr pResNodeContent = resContent->xmlChildrenNode;
+    if( pResNodeContent )
+    {
+        fs::path fsContentPureTextFile_docURL = m_fsContentFilesDirName / aStdStr_EncodedDocPathURL;
+        FILE* pFile_docURL = fopen_impl( fsContentPureTextFile_docURL, "w" );
+        if( pFile_docURL )
+        {
+            fprintf( pFile_docURL, "%s\n", pResNodeContent->content );
+            fclose( pFile_docURL );
+        }
+    }
+    xmlFreeDoc(resContent);
+}
+
+namespace {
+
+struct Data
+{
+    std::vector<std::string> _idList;
+
+    void append(const std::string &id)
+    {
+        _idList.push_back(id);
+    }
+
+    std::string getString() const
+    {
+        std::string ret;
+        for (auto const& elem : _idList)
+            ret += elem + ";";
+        return ret;
+    }
+};
+
+}
+
+static void writeKeyValue_DBHelp( FILE* pFile, const std::string& aKeyStr, const std::string& aValueStr )
+{
+    if( pFile == nullptr )
+        return;
+    char const cLF = 10;
+    unsigned int nKeyLen = aKeyStr.length();
+    unsigned int nValueLen = aValueStr.length();
+    fprintf( pFile, "%x ", nKeyLen );
+    if( nKeyLen > 0 )
+    {
+        if (fwrite( aKeyStr.c_str(), 1, nKeyLen, pFile ) != nKeyLen)
+            fprintf(stderr, "fwrite to db failed\n");
+    }
+    if (fprintf( pFile, " %x ", nValueLen ) < 0)
+        fprintf(stderr, "fwrite to db failed\n");
+    if( nValueLen > 0 )
+    {
+        if (fwrite( aValueStr.c_str(), 1, nValueLen, pFile ) != nValueLen)
+            fprintf(stderr, "fwrite to db failed\n");
+    }
+    if (fprintf( pFile, "%c", cLF ) < 0)
+        fprintf(stderr, "fwrite to db failed\n");
+}
+
+namespace {
+
+class HelpKeyword
+{
+private:
+    typedef std::unordered_map<std::string, Data> DataHashtable;
+    DataHashtable _hash;
+
+public:
+    void insert(const std::string &key, const std::string &id)
+    {
+        Data &data = _hash[key];
+        data.append(id);
+    }
+
+    void dump_DBHelp( const fs::path& rFileName )
+    {
+        FILE* pFile = fopen_impl( rFileName, "wb" );
+        if( pFile == nullptr )
+            return;
+
+        for (auto const& elem : _hash)
+            writeKeyValue_DBHelp( pFile, elem.first, elem.second.getString() );
+
+        fclose( pFile );
+    }
+};
+
+}
+
+namespace URLEncoder
+{
+    static std::string encode(const std::string &rIn)
+    {
+        const char * const good = "!$&'()*+,-.=@_";
+        static const char hex[17] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
+
+        std::string result;
+        for (char c : rIn)
+        {
+            if (rtl::isAsciiAlphanumeric (static_cast<unsigned char>(c))
+                || strchr (good, c))
+            {
+                result += c;
+            } else {
+                result += '%';
+                result += hex[static_cast<unsigned char>(c) >> 4];
+                result += hex[c & 0xf];
+            }
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+}
+
+void HelpLinker::addBookmark( FILE* pFile_DBHelp, std::string thishid,
+        const std::string& fileB, const std::string& anchorB,
+        const std::string& jarfileB, const std::string& titleB)
+{
+    HCDBG(std::cerr << "HelpLinker::addBookmark " << thishid << " " <<
+        fileB << " " << anchorB << " " << jarfileB << " " << titleB << std::endl);
+
+    thishid = URLEncoder::encode(thishid);
+
+    int fileLen = fileB.length();
+    if (!anchorB.empty())
+        fileLen += (1 + anchorB.length());
+    int dataLen = 1 + fileLen + 1 + jarfileB.length() + 1 + titleB.length();
+
+    std::vector<unsigned char> dataB(dataLen);
+    size_t i = 0;
+    dataB[i++] = static_cast<unsigned char>(fileLen);
+    for (char j : fileB)
+        dataB[i++] = static_cast<unsigned char>(j);
+    if (!anchorB.empty())
+    {
+        dataB[i++] = '#';
+        for (char j : anchorB)
+            dataB[i++] = j;
+    }
+    dataB[i++] = static_cast<unsigned char>(jarfileB.length());
+    for (char j : jarfileB)
+        dataB[i++] = j;
+
+    dataB[i++] = static_cast<unsigned char>(titleB.length());
+    for (char j : titleB)
+        dataB[i++] = j;
+
+    if( pFile_DBHelp != nullptr )
+    {
+        std::string aValueStr( dataB.begin(), dataB.end() );
+        writeKeyValue_DBHelp( pFile_DBHelp, thishid, aValueStr );
+    }
+}
+
+void HelpLinker::initIndexerPreProcessor()
+{
+    m_pIndexerPreProcessor.reset( new IndexerPreProcessor( indexDirParentName,
+         idxCaptionStylesheet, idxContentStylesheet ) );
+}
+
+void HelpLinker::link()
+{
+
+    if( bExtensionMode )
+    {
+        indexDirParentName = extensionDestination;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        indexDirParentName = zipdir;
+        fs::create_directory(indexDirParentName);
+    }
+
+    std::string mod = module;
+    std::transform (mod.begin(), mod.end(), mod.begin(), tocharlower);
+
+    // do the work here
+    // continue with introduction of the overall process thing into the
+    // here all hzip files will be worked on
+    bool bUse_ = true;
+    if( !bExtensionMode )
+        bUse_ = false;
+
+    fs::path helpTextFileName_DBHelp(indexDirParentName / (mod + (bUse_ ? ".ht_" : ".ht")));
+    FILE* pFileHelpText_DBHelp = fopen_impl( helpTextFileName_DBHelp, "wb" );
+
+    fs::path dbBaseFileName_DBHelp(indexDirParentName / (mod + (bUse_ ? ".db_" : ".db")));
+    FILE* pFileDbBase_DBHelp = fopen_impl( dbBaseFileName_DBHelp, "wb" );
+
+    fs::path keyWordFileName_DBHelp(indexDirParentName / (mod + (bUse_ ? ".key_" : ".key")));
+
+    HelpKeyword helpKeyword;
+
+    // catch HelpProcessingException to avoid locking data bases
+    try
+    {
+        bool bIndexForExtension = true;
+        // lastly, initialize the indexBuilder
+        if ( (!bExtensionMode || bIndexForExtension) && !helpFiles.empty())
+            initIndexerPreProcessor();
+
+        // here we start our loop over the hzip files.
+        for (auto const& helpFile : helpFiles)
+        {
+            // process one file
+            // streamTable contains the streams in the hzip file
+            StreamTable streamTable;
+            const std::string &xhpFileName = helpFile;
+
+            if (!bExtensionMode && xhpFileName.rfind(".xhp") != xhpFileName.length()-4)
+            {
+                // only work on .xhp - files
+                SAL_WARN("helpcompiler",
+                    "ERROR: input list entry '"
+                        << xhpFileName
+                        << "' has the wrong extension (only files with extension .xhp are accepted)");
+
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            fs::path langsourceRoot(sourceRoot);
+            fs::path xhpFile;
+
+            if( bExtensionMode )
+            {
+                // langsourceRoot == sourceRoot for extensions
+                std::string xhpFileNameComplete( extensionPath );
+                xhpFileNameComplete.append( '/' + xhpFileName );
+                xhpFile = fs::path( xhpFileNameComplete );
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                langsourceRoot.append( "/" );
+                if ( m_bUseLangRoot )
+                    langsourceRoot.append( lang + '/' );
+                xhpFile = fs::path(xhpFileName, fs::native);
+            }
+
+            HelpCompiler hc( streamTable, xhpFile, langsourceRoot, zipdir,
+                compactStylesheet, embeddStylesheet, module, lang, bExtensionMode );
+
+            HCDBG(std::cerr << "before compile of " << xhpFileName << std::endl);
+            hc.compile();
+            HCDBG(std::cerr << "after compile of " << xhpFileName << std::endl);
+
+            if (!m_bCreateIndex)
+                continue;
+
+            std::string documentPath = streamTable.document_path;
+            if (documentPath.compare(0, 1, "/") == 0)
+                documentPath = documentPath.substr(1);
+
+            std::string documentJarfile = streamTable.document_module + ".jar";
+
+            std::string documentTitle = streamTable.document_title;
+            if (documentTitle.empty())
+                documentTitle = "<notitle>";
+
+            const std::string& fileB = documentPath;
+            const std::string& jarfileB = documentJarfile;
+            std::string& titleB = documentTitle;
+
+            // add once this as its own id.
+            addBookmark( pFileDbBase_DBHelp, documentPath, fileB, std::string(), jarfileB, titleB);
+
+            const std::vector<std::string> *hidlist = streamTable.appl_hidlist.get();
+            if (hidlist)
+            {
+                // now iterate over all elements of the hidlist
+                for (auto & elem : *hidlist)
+                {
+                    std::string thishid = elem;
+
+                    std::string anchorB;
+                    size_t index = thishid.rfind('#');
+                    if (index != std::string::npos)
+                    {
+                        anchorB = thishid.substr(1 + index);
+                        thishid = thishid.substr(0, index);
+                    }
+                    addBookmark( pFileDbBase_DBHelp, thishid, fileB, anchorB, jarfileB, titleB);
+                }
+            }
+
+            // now the keywords
+            const Hashtable *anchorToLL = streamTable.appl_keywords.get();
+            if (anchorToLL && !anchorToLL->empty())
+            {
+                std::string fakedHid = URLEncoder::encode(documentPath);
+                for (auto const& elemAnchor : *anchorToLL)
+                {
+                    const std::string &anchor = elemAnchor.first;
+                    addBookmark(pFileDbBase_DBHelp, documentPath, fileB,
+                                anchor, jarfileB, titleB);
+                    std::string totalId = fakedHid + "#" + anchor;
+                    // std::cerr << hzipFileName << std::endl;
+                    const LinkedList& ll = elemAnchor.second;
+                    for (auto const& elem : ll)
+                    {
+                            helpKeyword.insert(elem, totalId);
+                    }
+                }
+
+            }
+
+            // and last the helptexts
+            const Stringtable *helpTextHash = streamTable.appl_helptexts.get();
+            if (helpTextHash)
+            {
+                for (auto const& elem : *helpTextHash)
+                {
+                    std::string helpTextId = elem.first;
+                    const std::string& helpTextText = elem.second;
+
+                    helpTextId = URLEncoder::encode(helpTextId);
+
+                    if( pFileHelpText_DBHelp != nullptr )
+                        writeKeyValue_DBHelp( pFileHelpText_DBHelp, helpTextId, helpTextText );
+                }
+            }
+
+            //IndexerPreProcessor
+            if( !bExtensionMode || bIndexForExtension )
+            {
+                // now the indexing
+                xmlDocPtr document = streamTable.appl_doc;
+                if (document)
+                {
+                    std::string temp = module;
+                    std::transform (temp.begin(), temp.end(), temp.begin(), tocharlower);
+                    m_pIndexerPreProcessor->processDocument(document, URLEncoder::encode(documentPath) );
+                }
+            }
+
+        }
+
+    }
+    catch( const HelpProcessingException& )
+    {
+        // catch HelpProcessingException to avoid locking data bases
+        if( pFileHelpText_DBHelp != nullptr )
+            fclose( pFileHelpText_DBHelp );
+        if( pFileDbBase_DBHelp != nullptr )
+            fclose( pFileDbBase_DBHelp );
+        throw;
+    }
+
+    if( pFileHelpText_DBHelp != nullptr )
+        fclose( pFileHelpText_DBHelp );
+    if( pFileDbBase_DBHelp != nullptr )
+        fclose( pFileDbBase_DBHelp );
+
+    helpKeyword.dump_DBHelp( keyWordFileName_DBHelp);
+
+    if( bExtensionMode )
+        return;
+
+    // New index
+    for (auto const& additionalFile : additionalFiles)
+    {
+        const std::string &additionalFileName = additionalFile.second;
+        const std::string &additionalFileKey = additionalFile.first;
+
+        fs::path fsAdditionalFileName( additionalFileName, fs::native );
+        HCDBG({
+                std::string aNativeStr = fsAdditionalFileName.native_file_string();
+                const char* pStr = aNativeStr.c_str();
+                std::cerr << pStr << std::endl;
+        });
+
+        fs::path fsTargetName( indexDirParentName / additionalFileKey );
+
+        fs::copy( fsAdditionalFileName, fsTargetName );
+    }
+}
+
+
+void HelpLinker::main( std::vector<std::string> &args,
+                       std::string const * pExtensionPath, std::string const * pDestination,
+                       const OUString* pOfficeHelpPath )
+{
+    bExtensionMode = false;
+    helpFiles.clear();
+
+    if ((!args.empty()) && args[0][0] == '@')
+    {
+        std::vector<std::string> stringList;
+        std::ifstream fileReader(args[0].substr(1).c_str());
+
+        while (fileReader)
+        {
+            std::string token;
+            fileReader >> token;
+            if (!token.empty())
+                stringList.push_back(token);
+        }
+        fileReader.close();
+
+        args = stringList;
+    }
+
+    size_t i = 0;
+    bool bSrcOption = false;
+    while (i < args.size())
+    {
+        if (args[i].compare("-extlangsrc") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "extension source missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+            extsource = args[i];
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-extlangdest") == 0)
+        {
+            //If this argument is not provided then the location provided in -extsource will
+            //also be the destination
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "extension destination missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+            extdestination = args[i];
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-src") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "sourceroot missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+            bSrcOption = true;
+            sourceRoot = fs::path(args[i], fs::native);
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-compact") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "compactStylesheet missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            compactStylesheet = fs::path(args[i], fs::native);
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-sty") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "embeddingStylesheet missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            embeddStylesheet = fs::path(args[i], fs::native);
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-zipdir") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "idxtemp missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            zipdir = fs::path(args[i], fs::native);
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-idxcaption") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "idxcaption stylesheet missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            idxCaptionStylesheet = fs::path(args[i], fs::native);
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-idxcontent") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "idxcontent stylesheet missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            idxContentStylesheet = fs::path(args[i], fs::native);
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-o") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "outputfilename missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            outputFile = fs::path(args[i], fs::native);
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-mod") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "module name missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            module = args[i];
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-lang") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "language name missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            lang = args[i];
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-hid") == 0)
+        {
+            ++i;
+            throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, "obsolete -hid argument used" );
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-add") == 0)
+        {
+            std::string addFile, addFileUnderPath;
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "pathname missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+
+            addFileUnderPath = args[i];
+            ++i;
+            if (i >= args.size())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "pathname missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+            addFile = args[i];
+            if (!addFileUnderPath.empty() && !addFile.empty())
+                additionalFiles[addFileUnderPath] = addFile;
+        }
+        else if (args[i].compare("-nolangroot") == 0)
+            m_bUseLangRoot = false;
+        else if (args[i].compare("-noindex") == 0)
+            m_bCreateIndex = false;
+        else
+            helpFiles.push_back(args[i]);
+        ++i;
+    }
+
+    //We can be called from the helplinker executable or the extension manager
+    //In the latter case extsource is not used.
+    if( (pExtensionPath && pExtensionPath->length() > 0 && pOfficeHelpPath)
+        || !extsource.empty())
+    {
+        bExtensionMode = true;
+        if (!extsource.empty())
+        {
+            //called from helplinker.exe, pExtensionPath and pOfficeHelpPath
+            //should be NULL
+            sourceRoot = fs::path(extsource, fs::native);
+            extensionPath = sourceRoot.toUTF8();
+
+            if (extdestination.empty())
+            {
+                std::stringstream aStrStream;
+                aStrStream << "-extlangdest is missing" << std::endl;
+                throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                //Convert from system path to file URL!!!
+                fs::path p(extdestination, fs::native);
+                extensionDestination = p.toUTF8();
+            }
+        }
+        else
+        { //called from extension manager
+            extensionPath = *pExtensionPath;
+            sourceRoot = fs::path(extensionPath);
+            extensionDestination = *pDestination;
+        }
+        //check if -src option was used. This option must not be used
+        //when extension help is compiled.
+        if (bSrcOption)
+        {
+            std::stringstream aStrStream;
+            aStrStream << "-src must not be used together with -extsource missing" << std::endl;
+            throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (!bExtensionMode && zipdir.empty())
+    {
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "no index dir given" << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+
+    if ( (!bExtensionMode && idxCaptionStylesheet.empty())
+        || (!extsource.empty() && idxCaptionStylesheet.empty()) )
+    {
+        //No extension mode and extension mode using commandline
+        //!extsource.empty indicates extension mode using commandline
+        // -idxcaption parameter is required
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "no index caption stylesheet given" << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+    else if ( bExtensionMode &&  extsource.empty())
+    {
+        //This part is used when compileExtensionHelp is called from the extensions manager.
+        //If extension help is compiled using helplinker in the build process
+        OUString aIdxCaptionPathFileURL = *pOfficeHelpPath + "/idxcaption.xsl";
+
+        OString aOStr_IdxCaptionPathFileURL( OUStringToOString
+            ( aIdxCaptionPathFileURL, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() ) );
+        std::string aStdStr_IdxCaptionPathFileURL( aOStr_IdxCaptionPathFileURL.getStr() );
+
+        idxCaptionStylesheet = fs::path( aStdStr_IdxCaptionPathFileURL );
+    }
+
+    if ( (!bExtensionMode && idxContentStylesheet.empty())
+        || (!extsource.empty() && idxContentStylesheet.empty()) )
+    {
+        //No extension mode and extension mode using commandline
+        //!extsource.empty indicates extension mode using commandline
+        // -idxcontent parameter is required
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "no index content stylesheet given" << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+    else if ( bExtensionMode && extsource.empty())
+    {
+        //If extension help is compiled using helplinker in the build process
+        //then  -idxcontent must be supplied
+        //This part is used when compileExtensionHelp is called from the extensions manager.
+        OUString aIdxContentPathFileURL = *pOfficeHelpPath + "/idxcontent.xsl";
+
+        OString aOStr_IdxContentPathFileURL( OUStringToOString
+            ( aIdxContentPathFileURL, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() ) );
+        std::string aStdStr_IdxContentPathFileURL( aOStr_IdxContentPathFileURL.getStr() );
+
+        idxContentStylesheet = fs::path( aStdStr_IdxContentPathFileURL );
+    }
+    if (!bExtensionMode && embeddStylesheet.empty())
+    {
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "no embedding resolving file given" << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+    if (sourceRoot.empty())
+    {
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "no sourceroot given" << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+    if (!bExtensionMode && outputFile.empty())
+    {
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "no output file given" << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+    if (module.empty())
+    {
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "module missing" << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+    if (!bExtensionMode && lang.empty())
+    {
+        std::stringstream aStrStream;
+        aStrStream << "language missing" << std::endl;
+        throw HelpProcessingException( HelpProcessingErrorClass::General, aStrStream.str() );
+    }
+    link();
+}
+
+// Variable to set an exception in "C" StructuredXMLErrorFunction
+static const HelpProcessingException* GpXMLParsingException = nullptr;
+
+extern "C" {
+
+static void StructuredXMLErrorFunction(SAL_UNUSED_PARAMETER void *, xmlErrorPtr error)
+{
+    std::string aErrorMsg = error->message;
+    std::string aXMLParsingFile;
+    if( error->file != nullptr )
+        aXMLParsingFile = error->file;
+    int nXMLParsingLine = error->line;
+    HelpProcessingException* pException = new HelpProcessingException( aErrorMsg, aXMLParsingFile, nXMLParsingLine );
+    GpXMLParsingException = pException;
+
+    // Reset error handler
+    xmlSetStructuredErrorFunc( nullptr, nullptr );
+}
+
+}
+
+HelpProcessingErrorInfo& HelpProcessingErrorInfo::operator=( const struct HelpProcessingException& e )
+{
+    m_eErrorClass = e.m_eErrorClass;
+    OString tmpErrorMsg( e.m_aErrorMsg.c_str() );
+    m_aErrorMsg = OStringToOUString( tmpErrorMsg, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() );
+    OString tmpXMLParsingFile( e.m_aXMLParsingFile.c_str() );
+    m_aXMLParsingFile = OStringToOUString( tmpXMLParsingFile, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() );
+    m_nXMLParsingLine = e.m_nXMLParsingLine;
+    return *this;
+}
+
+
+// Returns true in case of success, false in case of error
+bool compileExtensionHelp
+(
+    const OUString& aOfficeHelpPath,
+    const OUString& aExtensionName,
+    const OUString& aExtensionLanguageRoot,
+    sal_Int32 nXhpFileCount, const OUString* pXhpFiles,
+    const OUString& aDestination,
+    HelpProcessingErrorInfo& o_rHelpProcessingErrorInfo
+)
+{
+    bool bSuccess = true;
+
+    std::vector<std::string> args;
+    args.reserve(nXhpFileCount + 2);
+    args.push_back(std::string("-mod"));
+    OString aOExtensionName = OUStringToOString( aExtensionName, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() );
+    args.push_back(std::string(aOExtensionName.getStr()));
+
+    for( sal_Int32 iXhp = 0 ; iXhp < nXhpFileCount ; ++iXhp )
+    {
+        OUString aXhpFile = pXhpFiles[iXhp];
+
+        OString aOXhpFile = OUStringToOString( aXhpFile, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() );
+        args.push_back(std::string(aOXhpFile.getStr()));
+    }
+
+    OString aOExtensionLanguageRoot = OUStringToOString( aExtensionLanguageRoot, osl_getThreadTextEncoding() );
+    const char* pExtensionPath = aOExtensionLanguageRoot.getStr();
+    std::string aStdStrExtensionPath = pExtensionPath;
+    OString aODestination = OUStringToOString(aDestination, osl_getThreadTextEncoding());
+    const char* pDestination = aODestination.getStr();
+    std::string aStdStrDestination = pDestination;
+
+    // Set error handler
+    xmlSetStructuredErrorFunc( nullptr, StructuredXMLErrorFunction );
+    try
+    {
+        std::unique_ptr<HelpLinker> pHelpLinker(new HelpLinker());
+        pHelpLinker->main( args, &aStdStrExtensionPath, &aStdStrDestination, &aOfficeHelpPath );
+    }
+    catch( const HelpProcessingException& e )
+    {
+        if( GpXMLParsingException != nullptr )
+        {
+            o_rHelpProcessingErrorInfo = *GpXMLParsingException;
+            delete GpXMLParsingException;
+            GpXMLParsingException = nullptr;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            o_rHelpProcessingErrorInfo = e;
+        }
+        bSuccess = false;
+    }
+    // Reset error handler
+    xmlSetStructuredErrorFunc( nullptr, nullptr );
+
+    // i83624: Tree files
+    // The following basically checks if the help.tree is well formed XML.
+    // Apparently there have been cases when translations contained
+    // non-well-formed XML in the past.
+    OUString aTreeFileURL = aExtensionLanguageRoot + "/help.tree";
+    osl::DirectoryItem aTreeFileItem;
+    osl::FileBase::RC rcGet = osl::DirectoryItem::get( aTreeFileURL, aTreeFileItem );
+    osl::FileStatus aFileStatus( osl_FileStatus_Mask_FileSize );
+    if( rcGet == osl::FileBase::E_None &&
+        aTreeFileItem.getFileStatus( aFileStatus ) == osl::FileBase::E_None &&
+        aFileStatus.isValid( osl_FileStatus_Mask_FileSize ) )
+    {
+        sal_uInt64 ret, len = aFileStatus.getFileSize();
+        std::unique_ptr<char[]> s(new char[ int(len) ]);  // the buffer to hold the installed files
+        osl::File aFile( aTreeFileURL );
+        (void)aFile.open( osl_File_OpenFlag_Read );
+        aFile.read( s.get(), len, ret );
+        aFile.close();
+
+        XML_Parser parser = XML_ParserCreate( nullptr );
+        XML_Status parsed = XML_Parse( parser, s.get(), int( len ), true );
+
+        if (XML_STATUS_ERROR == parsed)
+        {
+            XML_Error nError = XML_GetErrorCode( parser );
+            o_rHelpProcessingErrorInfo.m_eErrorClass = HelpProcessingErrorClass::XmlParsing;
+            o_rHelpProcessingErrorInfo.m_aErrorMsg = OUString::createFromAscii( XML_ErrorString( nError ) );
+            o_rHelpProcessingErrorInfo.m_aXMLParsingFile = aTreeFileURL;
+            // CRASHES!!! o_rHelpProcessingErrorInfo.m_nXMLParsingLine = XML_GetCurrentLineNumber( parser );
+            bSuccess = false;
+        }
+
+        XML_ParserFree( parser );
+    }
+
+    return bSuccess;
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker_main.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker_main.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..36826b492
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/HelpLinker_main.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#include <HelpCompiler.hxx>
+#include <HelpLinker.hxx>
+#include <sal/main.h>
+#include <iostream>
+#include <memory>
+
+SAL_IMPLEMENT_MAIN_WITH_ARGS(argc, argv) {
+    std::vector<std::string> args;
+    for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
+        args.push_back(std::string(argv[i]));
+    try
+    {
+        std::unique_ptr<HelpLinker> pHelpLinker(new HelpLinker());
+        pHelpLinker->main( args );
+    }
+    catch( const HelpProcessingException& e )
+    {
+        std::cerr << e.m_aErrorMsg;
+        exit(1);
+    }
+    catch (const std::exception &e)
+    {
+        std::cerr << e.what();
+        exit(1);
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/HelpSearch.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/HelpSearch.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..982e672c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/HelpSearch.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+#include <helpcompiler/HelpSearch.hxx>
+#include <osl/file.hxx>
+#include <osl/thread.hxx>
+
+#include "LuceneHelper.hxx"
+#include <CLucene.h>
+
+HelpSearch::HelpSearch(OUString const &indexDir)
+{
+    OUString ustrSystemPath;
+    osl::File::getSystemPathFromFileURL(indexDir, ustrSystemPath);
+    d_indexDir = OUStringToOString(ustrSystemPath, osl_getThreadTextEncoding());
+}
+
+void HelpSearch::query(OUString const &queryStr, bool captionOnly,
+        std::vector<OUString> &rDocuments, std::vector<float> &rScores) {
+
+    lucene::index::IndexReader *reader = lucene::index::IndexReader::open(d_indexDir.getStr());
+    lucene::search::IndexSearcher searcher(reader);
+
+    const TCHAR* field = captionOnly ? L"caption" : L"content";
+
+    bool isWildcard = queryStr[queryStr.getLength() - 1] == L'*';
+    std::vector<TCHAR> aQueryStr(OUStringToTCHARVec(queryStr));
+    lucene::search::Query *pQuery;
+    if (isWildcard)
+        pQuery = _CLNEW lucene::search::WildcardQuery(_CLNEW lucene::index::Term(field, aQueryStr.data()));
+    else
+        pQuery = _CLNEW lucene::search::TermQuery(_CLNEW lucene::index::Term(field, aQueryStr.data()));
+
+    lucene::search::Hits *hits = searcher.search(pQuery);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < hits->length(); ++i) {
+        lucene::document::Document &doc = hits->doc(i); // Document* belongs to Hits.
+        wchar_t const *path = doc.get(L"path");
+        rDocuments.push_back(TCHARArrayToOUString(path != nullptr ? path : L""));
+        rScores.push_back(hits->score(i));
+    }
+
+    _CLDELETE(hits);
+    _CLDELETE(pQuery);
+
+    reader->close();
+    _CLDELETE(reader);
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/LuceneHelper.cxx b/helpcompiler/source/LuceneHelper.cxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7002162a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/LuceneHelper.cxx
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+#include "LuceneHelper.hxx"
+
+std::vector<TCHAR> OUStringToTCHARVec(OUString const &rStr)
+{
+    //UTF-16
+    if (sizeof(TCHAR) == sizeof(sal_Unicode))
+        return std::vector<TCHAR>(rStr.getStr(), rStr.getStr() + rStr.getLength() + 1);
+
+    //UTF-32
+    std::vector<TCHAR> aRet;
+    for (sal_Int32 nStrIndex = 0; nStrIndex < rStr.getLength(); )
+    {
+        const sal_uInt32 nCode = rStr.iterateCodePoints(&nStrIndex);
+        aRet.push_back(nCode);
+    }
+    aRet.push_back(0);
+    return aRet;
+}
+
+OUString TCHARArrayToOUString(TCHAR const *str)
+{
+    // UTF-16
+    if (sizeof(TCHAR) == sizeof(sal_Unicode))
+        return OUString(reinterpret_cast<const sal_Unicode*>(str));
+
+    // UTF-32
+    return OUString(reinterpret_cast<const sal_uInt32*>(str), wcslen(str));
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/helpcompiler/source/LuceneHelper.hxx b/helpcompiler/source/LuceneHelper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a84346e25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/helpcompiler/source/LuceneHelper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_HELPCOMPILER_SOURCE_LUCENEHELPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_HELPCOMPILER_SOURCE_LUCENEHELPER_HXX
+
+#if defined(__GNUC__)
+#  pragma GCC visibility push (default)
+#endif
+
+#include <CLucene.h>
+
+#if defined(__GNUC__)
+#  pragma GCC visibility pop
+#endif
+
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <vector>
+
+std::vector<TCHAR> OUStringToTCHARVec(OUString const &rStr);
+OUString TCHARArrayToOUString(TCHAR const *str);
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */