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Bug 47539 - XML editor
Summary: XML editor
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement with 5 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-Text-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2003-11-26 11:26 EST by Timo Nentwig CLA
Modified: 2005-01-09 09:09 EST (History)
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Description Timo Nentwig CLA 2003-11-26 11:26:53 EST 
eclipse urgently needs an XML editor. One with at least the following features  
  
- syntax highlighting 
- tree outline  
- cleanup/tidy  
- dtd validation  
( - XMLSPY-like grid layout )  
( - XSLT transformation )
Comment 1 Zohar Amir CLA 2003-12-29 11:34:49 EST 
it would also be nice to be able to comment out/in selected regions
Comment 2 Dani Megert CLA 2003-12-30 08:38:51 EST 
An XML editor might be contributed by the Webtools project
(http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/main.html)
Comment 3 Kees de Kooter CLA 2003-12-30 08:53:12 EST 
Additional features:

- code completion based on DTD or XSD
- validation against XSD

- JSP support
Comment 4 Vojtech Habarta CLA 2004-01-12 09:42:04 EST 
For me key features are:
- syntax highlighting
- perfect code completion based on XSD (multiple namespaces, xsi:type, 
elementForm unqualified)
- validation against XSD
- formatting
Comment 5 Timo Nentwig CLA 2004-04-05 11:08:04 EDT 
As declarative programming (i.e. xml config files) becomes more and more
important one should really think about how to support refactoring. Today's
application have lots of XML config files referring to lots of classes. And
those references are not updated in XML if code/struture is refactored in eclipse.

Probably the best eclipse could possibly do is a simple string find&replace as
it does in javadoc comments...:-\
Comment 6 Danny D'Amours CLA 2005-01-07 17:09:11 EST 
With the webtools project including an XML editor, is this bug still valid?

Perhaps the XML editor or a subset of it can be migrated into the platform once
it matures a bit more.
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2005-01-09 09:09:52 EST 
There are currently no plans to provide an XML editor as part of the Platform or
JDT UI since this is provided by WTP.