#568 Please externalize the mapping of file extensions to languages as preference file

[Torsten Kleiber]

Hi!

Especially for xml are a lot of extensions possible, which all represents url's:

• configuration files of several ide's and frameworks
• xsd, which are self xml
• several specialized XML message standards, eg. FpML (Financial products Markup Language)
• etc.

For this is would useful if the mapping is configurable externally in a file, which can be written from a text editor or from an ide plugin as JDeveloper PMD Plugin.

Kind regards
Torsten

[Paulo Merson]

We have design constraints and conventions to be enforced on wsdl files. It's highly desirable that PMD can read xml files that have a different file extension.

[hmozaffari]

Yes It would be very convinient if extensions can be defined in rules. I have defined some custom rules for Webmethods flow language which are in XML format. But since their extension is not XML I had to rename files prior to validation by PMD.
Thanks