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Custom Build Chain for XML? [message #1859866]

Sun, 02 July 2023 08:31

Christian Treczoks

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Registered: July 2023

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I have a bunch of XML files that I edit with the "Eclipse XML Editor and Tools" software - I hope this is the right forum for this.

For these, I've got a custom "build process" based on two PERL scripts:

Step 1: each *.xml -> *.pdf, *.idx (with idx files being CSVs with data extracted and processed from the XML)

Step 2: all *.idx together -> index.pdf (forming an index over all the objects)

I could easily create a Makefile for this, but how do I teach these rules to Eclipse?

[Updated on: Sun, 02 July 2023 08:32]

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Re: Custom Build Chain for XML? [message #1859868 is a reply to message #1859866]

Mon, 03 July 2023 00:08

Nitin Dahyabhai

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

There are different amounts of integration you can implement, but the simplest would be to add your external build process as an External Builder on the project, so that it will run automatically like all the others.

https://help.eclipse.org/latest/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-exttools-running.htm?cp=0_3_14

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