Description David Dean 2002-09-04 16:50:11 EDT

There are many different kinds of XML files in our system, and this strains the
simple "file extensions"-based association mechanism of the
org.eclipse.ui.editors extension point. As XML proliferates as a file format I
think this problem will be a common one. In fact a previously entered
enhancement request (20667) also touches on this issue. 

Ideally I think there should be a way, independent of the "extensions"
attribute, to indicate that files handled by a given editor are expected to be
XML files, and that the top level XML element WITHIN the file should also be
examined when Eclipse is determining what editor to associate with a given data
file. 

This would involve adding a "doctype" attribute to:


   <!ELEMENT editor EMPTY> 
   <!ATTLIST editor 
      doctypeCDATA #OPTIONAL