When your XML project requires to run an external tool different than a FO processor and which can be launched from the command line <oXygen/> offers you the option of integrating the tool by specifying just the command line for starting the executable file of the tool and its working directory. To integrate such a tool go to External Tools → +
If the external tool is applied on one of the files opened in <oXygen/> you should enable the option for saving all edited files automatically when an external tool is applied.
As example let us integrate the Ant build tool in <oXygen/>. The procedure for this purpose is:
Test your Ant installation from the command line in the directory
where you want to use Ant from <oXygen/>, for example run
the clean target of your
build.xml
file
C:\projects\XMLproject\build.xml
: ant
clean
Create a new external tool entry with the name Ant
tool, the working directory
C:\projects\XMLproject
and the command line
"C:\projects\XMLproject\ant.bat" clean obtained
by browsing to the ant.bat
file from directory
C:\projects\XMLproject
Run the tool from Command results panel:
→ → . You can see the output in theStarted: "C:\projects\XMLproject\ant.bat" clean Buildfile: build.xml clean: [echo] Delete output files. [delete] Deleting 5 files from C:\projects\XMLproject BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 second