[slav]

Is it possible to setup EmEditor to automatically determine if opened file is XML document, regardless of extension, and apply XML scheme.

Any XML document would have
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> (encoding could be different)
as 1st line.

So, in theory, it should be very easy to determine just by looking at 1st line.

[Stefan]

Hi slav.
 

You could utilize a macro script for that, which acts on event “File Opened”

 

Steps:
– save the macro as “DetectXML.jsee” to your EmEditor folder (I have a sub folder “Macros” created for that use)
– utilize “Macros > Select…” and select this new macro file to add it to MyMacros category.
– chose “Macros > Customize…”
– select the macro (at the end of the list),
– enable “[x] Run at Events”
– press at [Events…] and chose “[x] File Opened”
– ok
– ok
Test by opening an file containing XML structured text but lacks the XML extension (or not)

 

The macro:
(you may want to delete the “alert()” lines)
 

if (document.selection.Find("<?xml",eeFindNext)){
alert ('xml file detected'); //this line can be delete
alert("Current Configuration: " + document.ConfigName); //line can be delete
document.ConfigName = "XML"; //switch configuration to XML
alert("Configuration switched to: " + document.ConfigName); //line can be delete
}
 
  

Could be improved with
strFirstLine = document.GetLine( 1 );       if strFirstLine.indexOf(“<?xml”)…..
to detect at top of document only.
 
.

[slav]

Works great, thank you very much.

[Display Error]

The DetectXML.jsee only seems works on a freshly opened documents. But if you move the cursor below the first line and then re-open the document it can’t find “<?xml” since the cursor position is saved and past the 1st line. I was unable to get the “strFirstLine = document.GetLine( 1 );” to work as it spits out a “Expected (” error.

Is there an alternate method for automagically detecting and switching to XML scheme?

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