[oXygen-user] Note on transformation scenarios

[George Cristian Bina]

Dear Steven,

I understand the problem. However I am not sure that this functionality 
should stay in the transformation scenarios. More, it looks like a user 
defined action that can take the form of a plugin - that should be able 
to perform different operations and change the content of refresh 
different editor files. It it true that we do not provide an API for the 
plugins to have easily access to executing transformation scenarios for 
example, but this is one of the todo items that we will not be able to 
postpone soon as it is also very useful when doing a CMS integration.

For local files to be refreshed without asking for a confirmation please 
enable the Options->Preferences -- Global -- "Auto update unmodified 
editors on file system changes" and if the file is not modified in 
oXygen it will be loaded automatically from disk if it is changed.
You may want to also enable the Option->Preferences -- Editor / 
Open/Save -- "Save all files before transformation or validation" to 
avoid having modified files and thus have always the automatic refresh 
of modified local files.

Best Regards,
George
-- 
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the response George, I am aware of the current options.
> 
> The particular problem I have is that I, for example, use an XQuery 
> update on an eXist server to insert time-stamps into a document to 
> record the date and time of an update to the document as the 
> current-file in Oxygen. If the author continues without performing a 
> "revert" by hand after performing this action then the time stamp is lost.
> 
> I have a few cases where I want to run a transformation scenario against 
> the current file and reflect those changes or update a reference 
> resulting from them in that file. When such a file is in the file system 
> Oxygen will see the change and prompt the user. I'd like to force a 
> revert in that case too (without prompting).
> 
> Using a manual "revert" is counter intuitive and will introduce errors.
> 
> With respect,
> Steven
> 
> 
> On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:34 PM, George Cristian Bina wrote:
> 
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> As Eliot mentioned in case of local files oXygen can automatically 
>> detect that they are changes and reload them. What you can do for 
>> remote resources if to use the File->Revert action to refresh them. 
>> From Options->Menu shortcut keys you can assign a convenient shortcut 
>> for this action.
>>
>> We will look to see if it is possible to avoid writing an empty output 
>> file if nothing is generated to the standard output from the stylesheet.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> George
>> -- 
>> George Cristian Bina
>> <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>>
>> Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:
>>> Dear George,
>>> It would be most useful if the transformation scenarios had an 
>>> option  that required the document in the editor to be refreshed 
>>> after the  transform (for cases where an XQuery transform is applied 
>>> to the  current document in a database and the editor does not spot 
>>> the change).
>>> Also, use of XSLT result-document to generate multiple documents  
>>> overrides the default document generated, the transformation 
>>> scenarios  do not handle this case (they always expect a result 
>>> file). It's  annoying to have Oxygen generate a preview of an empty 
>>> file in these  cases.
>>> With respect,
>>> Steven
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>>>     Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
>>>     Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
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> -- 
>     Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
>     Institute for Advanced Science & Engineering
>     http://iase.info
>     http://senses.info
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