[Wixedit-devel] [ wixedit-Feature Requests-1510304 ] Support for WiX-3 extensions

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Feature Requests item #1510304, was opened at 2006-06-21 18:13
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 8
Submitted By: hbatra (hbatra)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Support for WiX-3 extensions

Initial Comment:
Since the latest WiX drop (3.0.1814.0) and maybe some 
versions before that too, have changed the WiX.xsd and 
moved parts of the schema into embedded resources of 
extension DLLs, WiXEdit can no longer be used to 
either author or candle/light these new .wxs files. It 
would be nice to have the following features:

a) Specify non-default namespace prefixes, e.g. 
xmlns:iis="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/IIsExtensio
n" and also examine the default namespace definition 
(http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi). 
Alternatively, ALL namespace prefixes could be 
included in the root node declaration :-(!

b) Use reflection to extract/use the necessary .xsd 
files from the extension DLLs for validating the 
authored .wxs files (iis -> 
ext\IIsExtension\wixext\xsd\iis.xsd).

c) Specify (or even better yet, infer) the extensions 
for Candle/Light to use (iis -> WixIisExtension)

d) Use (or maybe automatically prefix) the namespace 
prefix to the appropriate elements (iis:WebSite)

Some of the above could be added to the Tools -> 
Options dialog as a prefix, urn, assembly and schema 
tuple 
(iis, "http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/IIsExtension", 
WixIisExtension.dll, iis.xsd)

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Comment By: mattyj (mattyj2001)
Date: 2006-09-28 17:14

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I hate reading 'me too' posts, but I want to vote for this, 
if we can vote at all. Ha ha. Getting this working would 
make WixEdit a perfect compliment to Votive3/VisualStudio 
2005.

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Comment By: Jasper Keuper (jaykee)
Date: 2006-06-26 11:27

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Thanks for the detailed request, this should be done asap.

Hopefully I can find time to do this any time soon.

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