Can a Custom Refactoring Operation Use Saxon's EXPath Extensions?

[dreifsnider]

Hi,

I'm looking into creating a new custom refactoring operation for my team that would ideally rename DITA files and then update the references to these files in <topicref> and <xref> elements.

I found that Saxon supports using EXPath extensions which would provide support for "renaming" files (this would probably be a move function) through the file module: https://www.saxonica.com/html/documenta ... xpath.html

I'm wondering though if Oxygen's refactoring engine uses Saxon to process the XSLT and if I can use the EXPath extensions in a custom refactoring operation?

I'm also open to any other ideas you might have for how a refactoring operation could rename DITA files and then update all references.

The reason I'm investigating a refactoring operation is because we have over 500+ files that we would like to rename and we want to avoid having to rename them individually.

Thank you!

[Radu]

Hi,
Oxygen in general has support to update links when you rename individual files or when you rename folders if the "Main Files" support is enabled in the project but I assume you already know about this:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... files.html

With the XML refactoring XSLT support you can only make changes inside files, so there is no support to rename files. I assume this means you can try to come up with a hybrid solution, use custom code to rename the files and maybe an XML refactoring XSLT operation to fix up links.
Like for example in this case I used a combination of Ant build files and XML refactoring to convert image href to keyref:
https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/repla ... eyref.html
Or use some scripting language all the way to both rename and make changes in files like I attempted here using Python: https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/use-t ... names.html

Regards,
Radu