[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Content types with 'multiple' extensions

[emarcotte@xxxxxxxxx (Eugene Marcotte)]

That sounds pretty logical. Do you think this qualifies as a bug or is 
that the desired approach? 

Is there no way around it other than putting the full filename or the .in 
extension, which i was hoping to avoid since there are several other .in 
files that are not XML :) 

Thanks for your quick reply!

Eugene

Ed Merks wrote:

> Eugene,

> My guess would be that the extension matcher just looks for the last "." 
> in the file name and for abc.jnlp.in would find ".in" which would match 
> only against "*.in".


> Eugene Marcotte wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I originally posted this in the webtools group, but they suggested I 
> > try here.
> >
> > I'm using Ganymede, on Fedora Core 9, 64 bit.
> > I was just trying to edit a file using the XML editor, the file does 
> > not end .xml or any of the other xml content types that are listed by 
> > default. The dialog that came up told me to add the content type for 
> > this file, so I did. I added "*.jnlp.in" under xml and I also added 
> > *.jnlp while I was there.
> >
> > I went back to the file, and tried again. It still wouldn't open, same 
> > exact message comes up. If I rename the file to end with just .jnlp, 
> > it works fine and opens up in the XML editor. If I add Test.jnlp.in 
> > (the full name of the file) to the content types, tried again, and it 
> > opened right up. I just cannot have a 'complex' file extension it seems.
> >
> > So, I guess my question is: is there a way to get this to work? 
> > Alternatively, is there any way to simply turn off content type 
> > checking? I mean, does the XML editor really care what the extension 
> > of my file is so long as it can be parsed as XML? I don't mind having 
> > to go to a file and say "Open with XML editor" each time, if it will 
> > actually work.
> > Thanks a bunch,
> > Eugene