Site.xml and Tabs.xml editor

[Anil Ramnanan <li...@peppersauce.org>]

Since I am still working on the site.xml editor I as wondering if I 
could edit the tabs.xml file the same way. I know that our other option 
was using and EMF generated editor for tabs.cml since it has a DTD but I 
was wondering if I can't just use the same type of editor that I created 
for site.xml.

Regards,
Anil.

Re: Site.xml and Tabs.xml editor

[Ross Gardler <rg...@apache.org>]

Anil Ramnanan wrote:
> Since I am still working on the site.xml editor I as wondering if I 
> could edit the tabs.xml file the same way. I know that our other option 
> was using and EMF generated editor for tabs.cml since it has a DTD but I 
> was wondering if I can't just use the same type of editor that I created 
> for site.xml.

I agree that refactoring the common code out of the current site.xml 
editor makes more sense than using EMF, it's a nice simple DTD, EMF 
would probably be overkill.

What you will probably end up with is something like:

                     +--------------+
                     |  TreeEditor  |
                     +--------------+
                             |
                             |
                 ------------+------------
                 |                       |
          +--------------+      +----------------+
          |  siteXMLView |      | tabsXMLEditor  |
          +--------------+      +----------------+

I'd recommend wizards for the adding of new nodes (one for tabs, one for 
site) and the use of the built in property editor for further edits of 
attributes.

Ross