[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Generating extension point XML

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can (with some hand waving) generate programmatic extensions into 
the IExtensionRegistry ... but those aren't persisted.  Although if you 
hack the registry you can persist them as well :-)

If you are already working with the PDE editor, you can provide 
templates (like the actionSet Hello World template).

The templates have API that can update a plugin.xml with elements and 
attributes.

Of course, you can always have a look at 
org.eclipse.pde.internal.ui.editor.plugin.ManifestEditor in 
org.eclipse.pde.ui.  From there it reads and modifies a plugin.xml.

Depending on how dynamic your plugin.xml is, you can always use string 
builders or something like XMLMemento to create the XML and then insert 
it (using input and output stream) into the plugin.xml directly ... this 
is low level, though.

Later,
PW

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