WYSIWYG Editor for the component XML pages?

It seems it would be really easy to add a GUI to the component XML pages so you could quickly add datums, externals, etc.

Are there any plans to add this?

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Stokes

You mean something that lets you edit XML visually, with auto-complete et al like an IDE would provide?

Or do you mean something that shows you what the component edit tabs look like and then lets you add to that visually?

kmu

Auto-complete and on-the-fly validation... that's a good idea! Should be fairly easy to implement these days. For sure there's something available for that already...

Stokes

Well, I ask because I started an Eclipse plugin for editing .component files. It's pretty basic right now and not polished enough to share, but it splits the XML into the 3 sections and does the proper XML escaping. It can also push my .component file back into TeamSite, although that's not very configurable yet.

It does coloring of the XML content, but eventually it could also do auto-complete and XML validation using the Eclipse WTP editor. I just hadn't figured that out and haven't had time to work on it in a while.

I might could share what I have when it's in decent shape if there's enough interest and I have the time to finish it. I wasn't planning to include a wysiwyg view of the component property sheet though, so it may be missing the mark of the original question.