File Types Preferences
Oxygen XML Editor offers built-in editing support for a wide variety of file types, but you can also add new file extensions and associate them with whatever editor type fits your needs. The associations set here between a file extension and the type of editor will determine which editor will be opened for editing purposes when that type of file is created or opened.
To configure the File Types options, open the Preferences dialog box and go to File Types.
The table contains the following columns:
- Extension - The extensions of the files that will be associated with an editor type.
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Editor - The type of editor which the extensions will be associated with. Some editors provide easy access to frequent operations via toolbars (XML editor, XSL editor, DTD editor) while others provide just a syntax highlight scheme (Java editor, SQL editor, Shell editor).
If the editor set here is not one of the XML editors (XML editor, XSL editor, XSD editor, RNG editor, WSDL editor) then the encoding set in the Encoding for non-XML files option is used for opening and saving a file of this type.
The files that match the Ant build patterns will be associated with the Ant editor.
The files that match the Binary file patterns patterns are handled as binary and opened in the associated system application. Also, they are excluded from the following actions available in the Project view: File/Replace in Files, Check Spelling in Files, Validate.