[TxMt] [ANN] Plug-Released : TeXMLMate

[Todd Ditchendorf]

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:

http://xmlnanny.com

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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