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Bug 159507

Summary: Improved XML Editor
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Krishna Venkatraman <kvenkatraman>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Hongchang Lin <linhongc>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: zfei
Version: 2.2.0Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: 2.2.0 M4   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Bug Depends on: 166456    
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Description Krishna Venkatraman CLA 2006-10-02 16:12:47 EDT 
This project will look at improving the capabilities of the XML editor by leveraging the capabilities of the XML editor from Eclipse's Web Tools Project.
Comment 1 Hongchang Lin CLA 2006-12-18 05:32:57 EST 
Checked in the following new features:

1.A XML editor leverage from WTP for editing design file source (provided in a new seperated plugin:org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui.editor.xml.wtp), formatting the XML source is supported;

2.Provide two kinds of outline page in the Eclipse content outline view when the XML editor is actived, one is the XML source outline, another one is design outline(set as default). Provide an action on the outline view menus to switch between them, this action only appears when XML editor page is actived;

3.Supports synchronization between the outline pages and XML editor page after actions on outline page(including:selection, insert, delete, modification, rename):
3.1 After selecting a report element, jump to its XML source on XML editor and highlights them;
3.2 After insert, modifying or renaming a report element, reload the new report XML source on the XML editor;
3.3 Reload the outling page after invoking "save" action when XML editor page is actived.
3.4 Pop up a dialog when leaving the XML editor page if new XML source isn't saved.

4. Supports goto marker on XML source on the new XML editor if the report design file has problems.