Support for XML with different file extension in GUI

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:52 PM Kevin Cline <admin at somelinguist.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > In the GUI, is there any way to set the query context to an XML file that has an extension other than .xml ? > > Renaming the file works, obviously, but this isn't ideal, as the source of the data exports to and imports from another extension. > > Also, is it possible to enable syntax highlighting for XML files without changing the extension? I added the extension in Options->Preferences->File Filter, but nothing changed. > > Thank you for your help.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:43 AM Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > Do your files have a typical XML file suffix, or do you have all kinds > of suffixes that are usually not associated with XML data? In the > first case, we could easily extend our static suffix list; in the > latter case, I’ll think about some more alternatives. > > Best, > Christian > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:52 PM Kevin Cline <admin at somelinguist.org> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > In the GUI, is there any way to set the query context to an XML file that has an extension other than .xml ? > > > > Renaming the file works, obviously, but this isn't ideal, as the source of the data exports to and imports from another extension. > > > > Also, is it possible to enable syntax highlighting for XML files without changing the extension? I added the extension in Options->Preferences->File Filter, but nothing changed. > > > > Thank you for your help.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 7:00 PM Kevin Cline <admin at somelinguist.org> wrote: > > Hi Christian, > > In this case, I'm dealing with just a few different extensions used by > various linguistic software. While it would solve my problem, I'm not > sure how helpful it would be others to include them in the static > suffix list. Something more general might be helpful for others. > > The extensions I'm working with are .fwdata, .flextext, .lift, and > .lift-ranges. All are just XML files. > > Thanks, > > Kevin > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:43 AM Christian Grün > <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Kevin, > > > > Do your files have a typical XML file suffix, or do you have all kinds > > of suffixes that are usually not associated with XML data? In the > > first case, we could easily extend our static suffix list; in the > > latter case, I’ll think about some more alternatives. > > > > Best, > > Christian > > > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 4:52 PM Kevin Cline <admin at somelinguist.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > In the GUI, is there any way to set the query context to an XML file that has an extension other than .xml ? > > > > > > Renaming the file works, obviously, but this isn't ideal, as the source of the data exports to and imports from another extension. > > > > > > Also, is it possible to enable syntax highlighting for XML files without changing the extension? I added the extension in Options->Preferences->File Filter, but nothing changed. > > > > > > Thank you for your help.

> On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 18:32 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > > > I’ll probably add an editable list of XML suffixes to the GUI > > preference dialog. > > I think this would be very helpful - recently i was making an index of > some epub files - they are zip'd directories of (mostly) XML, but i > have re name them to end in .zip and/or expand them and rename > individual files right now. Or write a query to do it :) > > > -- > Liam Quin, https://www.holoweb.net/liam/cv/ > Web slave for vintage clipart http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/ > XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y work & consulting. > >

On Tue, 2018-11-06 at 18:32 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > I’ll probably add an editable list of XML suffixes to the GUI > preference dialog.

On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 19:20 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: > Good news: It has already been implemented, and it will be available > soon > after we’ve done some more testing!

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:16 PM Liam R. E. Quin <liam at fromoldbooks.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 19:20 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: > > Good news: It has already been implemented, and it will be available > > soon > > after we’ve done some more testing! > > you people are beyond awesome! :D > > > > > > -- > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. > Click here to have the slave beaten. >

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:46 AM Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the kudos ;) The new snapshot is online [1]. > > @Kevin: The project-specific XML suffixes can now be adjusted via the > GUI Preferences dialog. > @Liam: epub is now detected as archive suffix. > > [1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ > > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 9:16 PM Liam R. E. Quin <liam at fromoldbooks.org> > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2018-11-14 at 19:20 +0100, Christian Grün wrote: > > > Good news: It has already been implemented, and it will be available > > > soon > > > after we’ve done some more testing! > > > > you people are beyond awesome! :D > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > > with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. > > Click here to have the slave beaten. > > >