[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Preserving XML comments during serialization an

[Stefan Baramov <stefan.baramov@xxxxxxx>]

I am working on a editor of a GUI meta data described as an XML 
document. The XML Schema is well defined and I had no problem generating 
the ecore model from the XML schema. My editor has two pages: a 
graphical presentation page and source code page. The graphical 
presentation page is a tree structure and the source page is rendered by 
the StructuredTextEditor of the Web Tools Project. The user is suppose 
to be able to switch between XML source code and graphical presentation 
doing editing in both. The problem is if I use EMF to serialize or 
deserialize the XML text how do I preserve XML comments.

I found a posting 
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/newsLists/news.eclipse.tools.emf/msg26322.html 
suggesting to convert all complex types to mixed content. Unfortunately, 
 this is not an option for this project.

An article at 
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-WTP-Persisting-EMF/persisting.html 
explains how to use the translator framework developed by the WTP folks. 
However this framework is not documented and it is internal. So I cannot 
really use it.

The only solution I see is to fork the WTP translation framework, and 
develop something similar but simpler since I do not to maintain several 
different version (not yet) of the schema files.

I would appreciate any suggests hints or something.

Thanks
Stefan Baramov