[MonoDevelop] XML Editor

[Daniel Morgan]

It looks like Paco can finally have himself an XML editor.

Lluis Sanchez wrote:

>El dom, 26-02-2006 a las 12:38 +0000, Matt Ward escribió:
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>>Hi,
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>>Is anybody working on an XML Editor for MonoDevelop?
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>Nobody AFAIK.
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>>I spent a bit of time porting over the XML Editor that I previously
>>implemented for SharpDevelop, mainly for my own interest.  It's about
>>90% complete and works with MonoDevelop from the repository (revision
>>57256).
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>>Features:
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>>1) Element, attribute, attribute value and namespace auto-completion
>>for configured schemas.
>>2) XML validation against a schema.
>>3) XML formatting (pretty printing).
>>4) Inferring a schema given an xml document.
>>5) Automatic end element completion.
>>6) Schema configuration
>>       a) User can add new schemas.
>>       b) User can specify a default schema to be associated with a
>>particular file extension.
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>>Missing Features:
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>>Running XSL transforms.
>>Searching - not currently implemented.
>>Displaying the schema annotation.
>>Folding.
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>>Issues:
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>>1) A few of the unit tests for the xml completion are broken under
>>Mono.  There seem to be some differences between Mono's XmlSchema
>>classes and Microsoft's which I have not yet resolved.
>>2) Code duplication - some of the code is taken directly from the
>>MonoDevelop.SourceEditor classes.
>>3) Contains a slightly modified version of the CompletionListWindow.
>>The version with MonoDevelop relies on the CodeCompletionData class. 
>>The modified version changes the width of the list window when
>>displaying namespaces.  This width is hard coded, ideally the list
>>should expand to fit the list items.
>>4) Does not work with MonoDevelop 0.9 - uses the insertbefore
>>attribute so the xml editor display binding is queried before the
>>normal text editor's display binding when opening a file.
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>>If there is any interest, I'll look at finishing it off and making the
>>source code available, probably on SourceForge.
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>It would be awesome if you can work on this. I'm sure a lot of people
>will find it really useful (including myself).
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>Lluis.
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