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| <h2>Source page</h2> | |
| <p>In addition to the GUI pages, PDE provides a source page where users who | |
| prefer to edit the plugin.xml file by hand can work. Since manual editing | |
| of the file can open the door to a wide variety of errors, both syntactic and | |
| semantic, PDE validates the file upon saving or switching tabs to flag such | |
| errors.</p> | |
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| <img border="0" src="images/plugin-source.gif" alt="Source editor page" width="545" height="501"></p> | |
| <p>If a syntax error is introduced, PDE will lock out the form pages until the error | |
| is fixed. If you try to switch to any of the non-source pages, you will see the | |
| following dialog:</p> | |
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| <img border="0" src="images/source-errors.gif" alt="Source editor page - error dialog" width="443" height="148"></p> | |
| <p align="left">If you close the editor with errors in it and open it again, the | |
| editor will open into the Source page and other pages will not be accessible | |
| until the source is fixed.</p> | |
| <p align="left">The semantic errors, which PDE is able to detect, are listed on the <b> | |
| Plug-ins</b> tab of the <b>Plug-in Development->Compilers</b> preference | |
| page:</p> | |
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| <img border="0" src="images/manifest-validate.gif" align="center" width="492" height="541" alt="Plug-in Development compiler preferences"></p> | |
| <p align="left">You can set the level of each to one of 'Error', 'Warning' or | |
| 'Ignore'.</p> | |
| <p align="left">Note that for PDE to be able to detect some of these problems | |
| (e.g. required attributes not defined, undefined extension attributes, etc.), | |
| extension points you are using must have a valid schema associated with them. | |
| See <a href="pde_schema.htm">Extension Point Schema</a> for more details.</p> | |
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