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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Stealth XML editor project?
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Bob,
here is the background.
PDE includes an XML based editor for the manifest on the source page. A
2.1 planning item is to improve its usability. In particular it was lacking
dynamic reconciling which is an integral part of the Eclipse editing story.
We were asked to show an example for how to do this. When we started to
work on the example it became obvious that this can easily be generalized.
We therefore ended up with a more general XML editing infrastructure. The
current plan is to use it PDE internally only. BTW, the current Ant editing
story also lacks dynamic reconciling, so this would be another use case for
the infrastructure, but we might run out of time here.
As I understand there are currently no plans to make this infrastructure
generally available in 2.2. Its main focus was to address our internal XML
editing needs. In addition, the Eclipse 2.2 "proto" plan points out that
we want to improve the support for mixed-language editing such as Java with
embedded JSQL or JSPs. With the internal XML editing infrastructure we
also try to learn about the shortcomings of the text and editing frameworks
that might prevent us from achieving this in 2.2.
Kai
At 08:48 PM 1/26/2003 -0600, you wrote:
A comment on bug 19251 from dejan@xxxxxxxxxx says "We started working on a
high-quality source editing solution that
will use one shared model for form and source pages..." I have heard from
other sources that Kai is working on an "XML editing framework". Yet I
search the draft 2.2 project plan in vain for any mention of this activity.
Come on, guys. The least you can do is tell us what you're working on before
you spring it on us.
Bob
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