<oXygen/> XML Editor User Guide |
When your XML project requires to run an external tool different than a FO processor and which can be launched from the command line <oXygen/> offers you the option of integrating the tool by specifying just the command line for starting the executable file of the tool and its working directory. To integrate such a tool go to External Tools -> +
As example let us integrate the Ant build tool in <oXygen/>. The procedure for this purpose is:
Test your Ant installation from the command line in the directory
where you want to use Ant from <oXygen/>, for example run the
clean target of your
build.xml
file
C:\projects\XMLproject\build.xml
:
ant clean
Go to External Tools -> +
Create a new external tool entry with the name Ant
tool, the working directory
C:\projects\XMLproject
and the
command line "C:\projects\XMLproject\ant.bat"
clean obtained by browsing to the
ant.bat
file from directory
C:\projects\XMLproject
Run the tool from Command results panel: -> -> . You can see the output in the
Started: "C:\projects\XMLproject\ant.bat" clean Buildfile: build.xml clean: [echo] Delete output files. [delete] Deleting 5 files from C:\projects\XMLproject BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 second