[ jEdit-devel ] ProjectViewer dependancy on the XML plugin

[Amedeo F. <afa...@li...>]

Hi ProjectViewer developers,

first, thanks for this plugin!

I would like to use ProjectViewer without the XML (and thus Sidekick) plugin. If
I understand correctly, the only reason to depend on the XML plugin is that a
XML parser is needed.

According to the documentation this should be feasible by having a generic XML
parser available in lib/ext (or jdk 1.4, but I'm still using 1.3.1_01).

This does not work, since ProjectViewer's .props file explicitly requests the
XML plugin and when I try to remove it, jEdit complains and refuses to load
ProjectViewer.

I have tried removing 'xercesImpl.jar' and 'xmlParserAPIs.jar' from the jars
directory and ProjectViewer actually works with a Crimson parser in lib/ext, but
it would be nice if you could totally remove the XML plugin dependancy.

Another suggestion: you could modify your build.xml file to direct docs
generation to another directory than 'build', so that invoking a 'clean' to
rebuild the plugin from scratch would not kill the documentation.

Thanks
Amedeo