Editing XML Files In Eclipse

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I've been looking at the XML "pretty display" plugins out there for Eclipse.
I had a look at XML Buddy, which is a nice addon, but there's already an XML editor in Eclipse, for editing build.xml Ant files.
This would do fine for me, I just want the source colour coded, but you only get the option to open with Ant Editor on this build.xml file.
Is there a way to enable this for other XML files?
I'm using Eclipse 3.0M5, moving to M6 soon.
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Dave

Ilja Preuss

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posted 20 years ago

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In the preferences, under Workbench/File Associations, add *.xml and associate the ant editor with it.
I am not sure how well the editor works on non-ant files, though. XML-Buddy works quite well for me.

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Dave Hewy

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Oh yeah - why didn't I think of that !
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Dave