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I use Oxygen XML for developing XML Schemas, but after installing
myEclipse, I found that Oxygen XML Editor had been removed from
the list of Associated Editors for the xml file extension.Once I figured out what the problems was, from a topic on the oxygen
forums, I was able to fix the problem easily, using file associations in
the Eclipse Preferences dialog, but this is a troubling effect of installing
myEclipse.Bill.
Bill,
after installing myEclipse, I found that Oxygen XML Editor had been removed from the list of Associated Editors for the xml file extension.
To set the record straight, there is no malice intended in the install process. We associate the document types we currently support with our editors in the user preferences. XML being one of these document types was simply setup to default to the MyEclipse XML editor. In your case, the default to use the Oxygen XML Editor we over-written by the MyEclipse XML editor.
We appreciate your frustrations, and we are glad to see the issue was resolved quickly.
Jim,
I did not suspect malice. However, it seems that the the myeclipse editor was not simply added as an editor associated with xml, but the oxygen xml editor was somehow dropped from the list of editors associated with xml.
When you say in your note, ‘setup to default to the MyEclipse XML editor’ how is this done? I’m not very experienced with eclipse, and I had assumed that rather than a global default, the editor in effect would be determined by the perspective in effect. I did not expect that installation of one plugin could affect the presentation of another’s pespective.
How does eclipse decide which editor to present for a given file ?
Bill.
Bill,
When you say in your note, ‘setup to default to the MyEclipse XML editor’ how is this done? I’m not very experienced with eclipse, and I had assumed that rather than a global default, the editor in effect would be determined by the perspective in effect. I did not expect that installation of one plugin could affect the presentation of another’s pespective.
How does eclipse decide which editor to present for a given file ?
Any editor can associate itself with any filetype and can specify itself as the default in its XML deployment descriptor. Both our XML editor and Oxygen do the same thing. Given two “defaults”, Eclipse then simply picks the first one it happens to load. We certainly don’t do anything to “unset” Oxygen. You can reset Oxygen to be the default again, if you wish, on the Window > Workbench > File Associations preference page. Sorry for the confusion.
