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20030731 Thursday July 31, 2003

RE: A couple of quick Eclipse tips From James Strachan:

* there are various XML editing plugins available (X-men, xmlbuddy). Though for simple stuff, just enable the Ant plugin for all XML documents. The Ant plugin has a simple colour coded XML editor.

To enable it, open the Preferences window (Window -> Preferences) then go to Workbench -> File Associations. Then for *.xml add the Ant plugin association.

Nice! I've been wondering about that. Very cool - thanks James. Posted in Java at Jul 31 2003, 08:53:40 AM MDT 2 Comments

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I'd recommend xmlbuddy. I found x-men to be buggy. XmlBuddy has a neat outlining feature, where you can see every element in the outline at the currently selected level along with the value of the first attribute of it. It really makes browsing easy, especially for things like xml config files.

Posted by Drew McAuliffe on July 31, 2003 at 10:35 AM MDT #

There's an article on IBM DeveloperWorks about using an xml editor in eclipse - apparently, according to the article, there's a very basic xml editor that comes with eclipse as an example on how to write plugins. The article also recommends using Xml Buddy. Give it a try - I installed and am using it in 5 minutes! (Really. dispclaimer: I have a high speed internet connection, so download time wasn't a problem ;-) )

Posted by Paul Rivers on August 01, 2003 at 12:36 AM MDT #

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