[oXygen-user] Feedback on experimental plugin features.

[Michael Anthony Smith]

I have now made use of four of the experimental oXygen plugin workspace 
API options (on a Mac running OS X - Snow Leopard) :

(1) getOptionsStorage -  This has a straightforaward interface, which 
worked as expected.
(2) createNewEditor - This was slightly more awkward to use in our 
plugin's context (more details below).
(3) getEntityResolver - Works as expected (thanks).
(4) getURIResolver - Appears to works as expected (but currently, not 
tested).

I have managed to get the 'createNewEditor' API call to create a fresh 
document that is considered to be modified, using the following code:

    Writer writer = new StringWriter();
    ...
    // Write to the string.
    ...
    URL url= workspace.createNewEditor("xml", "text/xml",
    writer.toString());
    WSEditor ed=workspace.getEditorAccess(url,
    StandalonePluginWorkspace.MAIN_EDITING_AREA);
    ed.setModified(true);


Observations:

(1) This approach may be problematic for big documents, as the whole 
document is stored in a string.
(2) The created document is not marked as modified.

There are at least two ways of addressing the first of these points. One 
approach is to create a small blank document that is then overridden 
using the WSEditod's realoadContent(Reader). Here, the question I had 
was: what is the minimal XML document that can be overridden (and get 
the right document type association - e.g. DITA)? It might be that 
oXygen could automatically create such a document from the first two 
arguments of the createNewEditor method.

A second approach could be to replace the third argument of the 
createNewEditor method with a java.io.Reader argument, such as is used 
when reloading a document into an existing WSEditor 
(editor.reloadContent(reader)).

Overall, I am pleased with these experimental enhancements.

Regards,
Anthony.

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