Oxygen XML Forum

I'm really starting to use the external tools option, which allows me to make oXygen the center of my world. One problem I'm running into, though, is that I can't string multiple commands together. This is in WinXP, with stand-along oXygen.

For example, I'd like to have the following external tool command: If I do that, though, the two lines get treated as one. If I turn them into one line and separate them with &&, which is a way to combine commands at the dos prompt, the first command succeeds, but the second one does not. The same command run at the command-prompt does succeed.

I know I can use a batch file for this, but I'd rather not. Can you string multiple command lines together in an external tool call from oXygen?

Hello,

We will consider modifying the built-in command line interpreter of oXygen to allow more than one command in the command line of an external tool. Can you tell us why you would not like to use a batch file with multiple commands as external tool in oXygen?


Regards,
Sorin

If I used a batch file, and I wanted to change the external tool command, I'd have to find and edit the batch file. If that was a quick one-off change, I'd have to then revert my change. If I could string together multiple commands in the oxygen external tool command, it'd all be right there, and it'd be much easier to manage.