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[news.eclipse.technology.lepido] Re: File extensions

Stavros Kounis wrote:

Hi all



Should we start a discussion about file extensions?

For the moment I have cforms in my mind. Considering that we will have an IDE soon (I hope so) it will be cleaner for cforms to have an extensions .cfml (Cocoon Form Markup Language) for example. It will be more ease to do file associations.

Except cforms I think that we have to find the files that will be visually edited in lepido and decide if we need a file extension for each and of course choose one

WDYT?



This is an important point. However I'm not sure we should think in terms of file extensions, but rather in terms of content-types.


Eclipse 3.1 provides an extended support for file and content association, allowing the introspection of the file contents to determine what a file exactly contains. Search "mime-type" in the Eclipse help to read more about this. There's even a "describer" (the introspector) for XML files that defines the content-type according to either the DTD or the root element name.

So far the file types for visual editors that come to mind are :
- *.xconf (component definitions)
- logkit.xconf
- *.xmap
- form definitions
- form bindings
- portal files
- i18n dictionaries

Other ones that I forgot?

Sylvain

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