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Re: [eclipse-dev] Suggestion to move the XML editor to Eclipse platform?

Apologies as this thread got split into two in my Outlook and I missed a
bunch of messages. Some of these questions still stand tho.

On 2016-09-19, 10:45 AM, "Doug Schaefer" <dschaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>What in the XML editor brings in non-XML editor stuff from WTP? Just
>because the XML editor is big, why does that make it not eligible to be in
>the platform? Would the generic editor have content assist support for
>tags? The generic editor would have to have feature parity with the XML
>editor or there¹s really no point.
>
>Doug.
>
>On 2016-09-19, 7:18 AM, "eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
>Andrey Loskutov" <eclipse-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
>loskutov@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>My hope was that the new "better" text editor Mickael is working on,
>>would bring a basic xml functionality into the "pure" platform.
>>
>>WTP is for sure too big to fit into "pure" Platform.
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>Andrey Loskutov
>>
>>http://google.com/+AndreyLoskutov
>>
>>
>>> Gesendet: Montag, 19. September 2016 um 13:03 Uhr
>>> Von: "Lars Vogel" <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> An: "General development mailing list of the Eclipse project."
>>><eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Betreff: [eclipse-dev] Suggestion to move the XML editor to Eclipse
>>>platform?
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> We use a lot of XML for platform development, for example plugin.xml,
>>> component.xml, etc. We also have specialized "XML like" editors for
>>> these components, e.g. the plugin.xml editor.
>>> 
>>> Was it considered in the past to contact the Eclipse WTP project and
>>> suggest to move the XML editor to the platform? I assume other
>>> components might also leverage from a strong XML support in the
>>> platform.
>>> 
>>> Best regards, Lars
>>> 
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