Eclipse plugin for Mach-ii?

[Richard Kroll]

Hey all,
I've been searching for a way to enable code hints when editing my
mach-ii.xml config files within Eclipse. I know I came across a plugin
for Dreamweaver for this, but cannot seem to find one for eclipse. Can
anyone point me in the direction of one if it exists?

Thanks,

Rich Kroll

[Andrew Powell]

Take a look at Oxygen XML. www.oxygenxml.com

You can load the DTD into it and it will use that to help you hint
your XML.

ap

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[Kurt Wiersma]

For some reason I always keep coming back to XMLBuddy. It has always worked the best for me. It still works great with Eclipse 3.2.

http://www.xmlbuddy.com/

--Kurt

[Mark Mandel]

I like the Web Tools Project for editing XML -

Works very well for me:
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/

Mark

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[Matt Williams]

Ditto on XML Buddy (the free version is sufficient for me). Note that
you do have to have the file extension be xml. Something like
machii.xml.cfm makes CFEclipse be the perspective and not XML Buddy.

Matt

[Richard Kroll]

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I am starting with the WTP
from eclipse (I was looking for integrated JS / CSS anyhow!).

I noticed that in a few sample apps that people are using machii.xml.cfm
instead of the (what I thought was) standard machii.xml. What is the
benefit of adding a .cfm extension to this? My first thought was that
you could include CFML into the template, but after thinking about it,
it seems to me that this file is being parsed as an XML doc and would
not work in this fashion. What am I missing?

Rich Kroll

[Dan Wilson]

Rich,

The point of doing that is to secure the configuration file. At the
top of the xml.cfm file there is a line of CFML commented out using an
HTML comment. This is not the same as a CFM comment and the inner CFM
command runs.

If the xml.cfm file is hit from the webserver, no content is rendered
to the browser thusly protecting your configuration file from prying
eyes in the browser.

However, internally, the same xml.cfm file is passed off to the MachII
configuration parser and the HTML comment is respected. What is left
is the MachII xml configuration and this is happily processed by the
framework.

HTH

Dan Wilson

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[Kurt Wiersma]

Actually there is a way around this if you are using Eclipse 3.2. In the Eclipse preferences under editor > file associations you add XMLBuddy to list of valid editors for .cfm files. Then right click on your mach-ii.xml.cfm file and choose open with > XMLBuddy and you should be set. Eclipse even remembers that you want that file to always open with XMLBuddy instead of the standard .cfm file editor. Gotta love Eclipse! :)

--Kurt

[Matt Williams]

Very nice Kurt. Thanks for that tip. I never thought to try that.

Matt

On 1/30/07, Kurt Wiersma <kwie...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Jim]

On Jan 29, 4:27 pm, "Kurt Wiersma" <kwier...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For some reason I always keep coming back to XMLBuddy. It has always worked
> the best for me. It still works great with Eclipse 3.2.

Can anyone provide some detailed instructions on how to setup the DTD
in XMLBuddy? I recall doing this awhile ago when I was working on
Fusebox but forgot the specifics... I've got the plugin installed
just need to get it pointed to the DTD I imagine.

Thanks,
Jim

[Matt Williams]

I could be wrong, but I think you only need to point to it in the xml file:
<!DOCTYPE mach-ii PUBLIC
"-//Mach-II//DTD Mach-II Configuration 1.1.1//EN"
"mach-ii_1_1_1.dtd">

Then make sure you have a copy of the dtd in the same dir as the xml
file itself.

Mat

[Qasim Rasheed]

MyEclipse is another option for XML and it has several other plugins.

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