Oxygen XML Editor offers editing support for a wide variety of file types, but users are free to add new file extensions and associate them with the editor type which fits better. The associations set here between a file extension and the type of editor which opens the file for editing have precedence over the default associations available in the dialog box.
To configure the File Types options, open the Preferences dialog box and go to .
The table columns contain the following data:
- Extension - The extensions of the files that will be associated with an editor type.
- 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, etc.).
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 preference Encoding for non XML files 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.