Thomas, thanks for the feedback... I really like what you've described here. I'm currently working on adding schematron support to the plugin. After that I'll look into tmCommands and adding 'validate- on-save' functionality. I agree that would make the workflow much more natural/convenient. Anything that integrates the functionality more closely with TextMate interests me.
Great ideas! Keep em coming.
Upcoming features:
Schematron HTML parsing/validating (not sure about some issues here) XML Catalog support (easy management of local schemas mapped to remote URIs for offline/faster validation) verbose SAX parsing search/query document with XPath & XQuery?
Ultimately, I want full-blown 'XML IDE'-quality features in TextMate... but it will take some time.
In the meantime, you may find my other app, XML Nanny useful for validating files on disk outside of TextMate:
Todd
On Dec 27, 2006, at 11:07 AM, thomas Aylott wrote:
I'm just thinking of ways to use your same thing there for more than just the contents of the current document. If it could handle just STDIN or a path to a file, you could use it for anything anywhere. For example, almost all of my xHtml files have embedded erb style thinggies in them which will be replaced by lovely well-formed goodness, but with your plugin, all it sees is the contents of the frontmost document.
I could easily write a textmate command that could strip out my ERB junk and replace it or even parse it and then use your tool to check it. I could make the textmate command trigger on save so I could check the XML-goodness of my pages without thinking about it.
Currently, i'd have to write a command to convert my document to xml compatible (which i would have to do either way) then output the contents of that action into a new document save it then click the validate button on your palette
Ideally, i'd like to write a command to convert my document to xml compatible (which i would have to do either way) that then outputs the contents of that action directly into your plugin and clicks validate for me and bind this command to command-s
The second way, I would get validations automatically for any and all XML scoped documents on save automatically. The first way, I have to go through 3-4 steps for each document I want to validate every time I want it to validate and I have to deal with temporary files and extra windows full of parsed out junk.
I must admit that your plugin is really quite hip and I will be using it. I just think it could be more flexible.
thomas Aylott — design42 — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg
On Dec 27, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Todd Ditchendorf wrote:
Does this thing necessarily have to be a plugin to function? It looks like you could create an iconless application instead and launch it with a tmCommand.
There's no technical barrier to just grabbing the window's current (possibly unsaved) text from a plugin. In fact, it would probably be easier. Then again, I have no idea what a tmCommand is...
I'm looking into this, but at the moment, I'm thinking a plugin is more appropriate than a separate, pseudo-app. But I welcome input from anyone who knows more.
Todd
On Dec 27, 2006, at 10:30 AM, thomas Aylott wrote:
On Dec 27, 2006, at 9:54 AM, Todd Ditchendorf wrote:
- It only seems to recognize changes in the document after I
have saved it
yeah.. this could be improved. thanks for the input
Does this thing necessarily have to be a plugin to function? It looks like you could create an iconless application instead and launch it with a tmCommand. That would give you the ability to parse the unsaved version by simply piping the contents of the window to a temporary file using the tmCommand.
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?LSUIElement
Specifies that an application is background-only but has a UI as well (usually a floating utility window). No menu bar or Dock icon, with the exception that it may have an NSStatusItem.
thomas Aylott — design42 — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg
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