Hi, One nice feature in oXygen is that you can wire in External Tools, and oXygen will capture their outputs in a Command Results panel. Another is, of course, that you can link directly from reports generated by validators, XPath queries and the like -- which also appear in Command Results panels. Can these two features be combined? In other words, would it be possible for me to generate a report in an external tool which, once oXygen picked it up in its panel, would allow me to link directly to locations named in the report? I'm familiar with the "SystemID", "Location", "Description" format oXygen saves out from command results, but apparently (unless I'm missing something) what I want to do here isn't quite as simple as creating this format. Is this a feature request, or should I be able to accomplish what I want already? Regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
Hello, It is a feature request which we already thought about in connection with the output of custom validators plugged to oXygen in Options -> Preferences -> Editor -> Custom Validation. I think we can easily extend it to external tools. A format must be imposed for the fragments of the output from the tool which should be rendered as clickable links. It could be something simple, like: SystemID: ... Location: ... Description: ... with some special delimiters before the first field and after the last field of the clickable message. Regards, Sorin Wendell Piez wrote:
Hi,
One nice feature in oXygen is that you can wire in External Tools, and oXygen will capture their outputs in a Command Results panel.
Another is, of course, that you can link directly from reports generated by validators, XPath queries and the like -- which also appear in Command Results panels.
Can these two features be combined? In other words, would it be possible for me to generate a report in an external tool which, once oXygen picked it up in its panel, would allow me to link directly to locations named in the report?
I'm familiar with the "SystemID", "Location", "Description" format oXygen saves out from command results, but apparently (unless I'm missing something) what I want to do here isn't quite as simple as creating this format.
Is this a feature request, or should I be able to accomplish what I want already?
Regards, Wendell
Sorin, At 10:24 AM 9/14/2007, you wrote:
It is a feature request which we already thought about in connection with the output of custom validators plugged to oXygen in Options -> Preferences -> Editor -> Custom Validation. I think we can easily extend it to external tools. A format must be imposed for the fragments of the output from the tool which should be rendered as clickable links. It could be something simple, like:
SystemID: ... Location: ... Description: ...
with some special delimiters before the first field and after the last field of the clickable message.
That would do it. In my case the requirement does indeed arise with a "custom validation", except the validator in this case takes the form of an XSLT stylesheet. (It would be in Schematron if that were up to this particular job.) I can use Saxon extensions to get line numbers etc., so such a format would be fairly straightforward to generate. Which implies that one could also provide this for XSLT transformation results, for extra fun. I could simply use a transformation scenario and not an external tool. While we're at it ... any chance that that format could be ... XML? I've also had occasion to upconvert oXygen validation results into XML for further processing; if oXygen could give XML back on its own, I wouldn't have to do that. Thanks, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
Hello, The output of custom validators is usually in text format as the validator is used from command line. The output of command line tools like compilers, validators, transformers, etc is in plain text probably because the XML format takes more space on the screen so it is more difficult to read in a text console. Saving in an XML format the clickable validation results displayed in the bottom panel is a different matter and we could create an action "Save Results as XML" in the popup menu of the panel next to the existing action "Save Results". Regards, Sorin Wendell Piez wrote:
While we're at it ... any chance that that format could be ... XML? I've also had occasion to upconvert oXygen validation results into XML for further processing; if oXygen could give XML back on its own, I wouldn't have to do that.
Thanks, Wendell
Sorin, At 03:28 AM 9/17/2007, you wrote:
The output of custom validators is usually in text format as the validator is used from command line. The output of command line tools like compilers, validators, transformers, etc is in plain text probably because the XML format takes more space on the screen so it is more difficult to read in a text console.
Understood.
Saving in an XML format the clickable validation results displayed in the bottom panel is a different matter and we could create an action "Save Results as XML" in the popup menu of the panel next to the existing action "Save Results".
That would be superlative. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
Hello Wendell, I already added this enhancement request to our issue tracker. Cheers, Sorin Wendell Piez wrote:
Saving in an XML format the clickable validation results displayed in the bottom panel is a different matter and we could create an action "Save Results as XML" in the popup menu of the panel next to the existing action "Save Results".
That would be superlative.
Cheers, Wendell
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