| XML editing and WTP: Sense? [message #63818] |
Mon, 10 January 2005 07:09  |
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I'd like to politely ask why XML editing is a part of the WTP? Editing
XML is a common usecase in almost all domains, not only Java web
development. In my opinion the XML editor should be in a package on the
same "level" as the plain text editor.
XML editing could be part of the platform (or at least the JDT),
wouldn't that be a better fit?
Regards,
Andreas
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| Re: XML editing and WTP: Sense? [message #65249 is a reply to message #63818] |
Thu, 13 January 2005 03:45  |
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:09:33 +0100, Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de> wrote:
> I'd like to politely ask why XML editing is a part of the WTP? Editing
> XML is a common usecase in almost all domains, not only Java web
> development. In my opinion the XML editor should be in a package on the
> same "level" as the plain text editor.
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> XML editing could be part of the platform (or at least the JDT),
> wouldn't that be a better fit?
I was all set to agree with you until that part about the JDT :)
Seriously, its in WTP because there is a lot of XML in Web Development, and
*source editing* of XML turns out to be highy related to source editing of HTML, and
JSPs so, there's some synergy there.
We are, however, due to popular request, looking at ways of making that subsystem seperately
available via update manager.
On the other end of the stack, the Eclilpse base is doing all it can not to grow any larger
(everyone's got their own favorite thing *they* think should be in the base and instead of growing
larger, I think the Eclilpse Foundation vision is to be more component based).
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