Some nifty XML editing add-ons
It was a long weekend here in India, and that provided me some time to add some shortcuts which will help users who author XML documents using NetBeans. I wrote a plugin which will add some context sensitive actions to the XML editor. I have just managed to add one action (Delete current attribute), but more are on the way. Actions planned are:
- Jump to parent tag
- Jump to next sibling tag
- Jump to previous sibling tag
- Jump to end tag (if at start tag)
- Jump to start tag (if at end tag)
- Jump to next attribute in a tag
- Jump to previous attribute in a tag
- Delete current tag (alongwith children)
- Delete current attribute (alongwith it's value)
- Delete value
- Expand a short tag <a/> into the longer form <a></a>
- Condense an empty tag <a></a> into it's shorter form <a/>
I am planning to upload the module on the Plugin portal soon. For now, here's a screen shot:
Before the action was selected:
After the action was selected (notice the name attribute is gone):
