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Bug 365378

Summary:	Externalize Strings could optionally use an XML properties file
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Brian Davis <turbohappy>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Brian Davis

2011-12-01 19:20:10 EST

Build Identifier: 20110218-0911

There are reasons (handling of special characters including line breaks) for wanting to use an XML properties file for externalized strings instead of the traditional properties file. It would be great if Eclipse supported XML properties files in this feature. I can currently use the tool to generate, then modify the Message class and the properties file to XML and it will work at runtime, but I lose all the really cool clickthrough type features (and I can't just generate straight to the XML).

Reproducible: Always