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Adding New Legal File Types to XML Generate [message #175330]

Mon, 24 July 2006 19:28

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: hcurtis.xaware.com

In our plugin I would like to add three new files types that would be
treated as legal XML file types for the XML Generate to produce. This is
the generate from an XML schema menu option. I would prefer to do this in
our plugin's plugin.xml. Could someone suggest how to accomplish this or
where I should look to see how it may be done?

Thank you,
Bud Curtis

Re: Adding New Legal File Types to XML Generate [message #175353 is a reply to message #175330]

Tue, 25 July 2006 07:53

Eclipse User

Bud Curtis wrote:

> In our plugin I would like to add three new files types that would be
> treated as legal XML file types for the XML Generate to produce. This is
> the generate from an XML schema menu option. I would prefer to do this in
> our plugin's plugin.xml. Could someone suggest how to accomplish this or
> where I should look to see how it may be done?

> Thank you,
> Bud Curtis

Take a look at the xml.ui plugin. Specifically the NewXMLWizard and
NewXMLGenerator class. Notice that this code is driven off a CMDocument
model which is abstraction layer over a grammar model such as a DTD or XML
Schema.

Good luck!

Re: Adding New Legal File Types to XML Generate [message #175390 is a reply to message #175353]

Tue, 25 July 2006 12:26

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: hcurtis.xaware.com

I was able to find an extension that worked:

<extension point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.contentTypes">
<file-association
content-type="org.eclipse.core.runtime.xml"
file-extensions="xbd"/>
</extension>

but I do not know why my first attempt (the following) had no effect:

<extension point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.contentTypes">
<content-type
base-type="org.eclipse.core.runtime.xml"
default-charset="UTF-8"
describer="org.eclipse.core.internal.content.XMLContentDescriber "
file-extensions="xbd"
id="xaware_xml"
name="XML"
priority="high">
</content-type>
</extension>

I would have thought the second case would have added to the base-type the
file extension.

Is there a document, book, or on-line help that could explain why one over
the other works in this case. While the idea of extensions is pretty clear,
the application of one over the other is still muddy water at best.

Thanks for your help by the way,
Regards,
Bud Curtis

"craig" <csalter@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:d0acfe0a117f7c460bcc3d4bdfc5cd57$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Bud Curtis wrote:
>
>> In our plugin I would like to add three new files types that would be
>> treated as legal XML file types for the XML Generate to produce. This is
>> the generate from an XML schema menu option. I would prefer to do this
>> in our plugin's plugin.xml. Could someone suggest how to accomplish this
>> or where I should look to see how it may be done?
>
>> Thank you,
>> Bud Curtis
>
> Take a look at the xml.ui plugin. Specifically the NewXMLWizard and
> NewXMLGenerator class. Notice that this code is driven off a CMDocument
> model which is abstraction layer over a grammar model such as a DTD or XML
> Schema.
> Good luck!
>

Re: Adding New Legal File Types to XML Generate [message #175511 is a reply to message #175390]

Wed, 26 July 2006 11:45

Eclipse User

I assume 'xbd' is the file extension of your XML instance document? If so
I'm not sure why you're seeing any problems. If not and this is the
extension of your schema document I can think of a few places in the code
where content type is not respected and 'dtd' and 'xsd' are pretty much
hard coded.

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