<oXygen/> XML Editor User Guide

Integrating external tools

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 Options->Preferences+External Tools

Integrating the Ant tool

As example let us integrate the Ant build tool in <oXygen/>. The procedure for this purpose is:

  1. Download and install Ant on your computer.

  2. 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

  3. Go to Options->Preferences+External Tools

  4. 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

  5. Run the tool from Tools->External Tools->Ant tool. You can see the output in the Command results panel:

        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