On the Oxygen XML Author website there is a plugin development kit with some sample plugins (source code and compiled code) and the Javadoc API necessary for developing custom plugins.
The minimal implementation of a plugin must provide:
A ro.sync.exml.plugin.PluginDescriptor object is passed to the constructor of the subclass of the ro.sync.exml.plugin.Plugin class. It contains the following data items about the plugin:
The ro.sync.exml.plugin.PluginDescriptor fields are filled with information from the plugin descriptor file.
The plugin descriptor is an XML file that defines how the plugin is integrated in Oxygen XML Author and what libraries are loaded. The structure of the plugin descriptor file is fully described in a DTD grammar located in OXYGEN_INSTALLATION_FOLDER/plugins/plugin.dtd. Here is a sample plugin descriptor used by the Capitalize Lines sample plugin:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plugin SYSTEM "../plugin.dtd"> <plugin name="Capitalize Lines" description="Capitalize the first character on each line" version="1.0.0" vendor="SyncRO" class="ro.sync.sample.plugin.caplines.CapLinesPlugin"> <runtime> <library name="lib/caplines.jar"/> </runtime> <extension type="selectionProcessor" class="ro.sync.sample.plugin.caplines.CapLinesPluginExtension" keyboardShortcut="ctrl shift EQUALS"/> </plugin>
If your plugin is of type Selection, Document or General, and thus contributes an action either to the contextual menu or to the main menu, then you can assign a keyboard shortcut for it. You can use the keyboardShortcut attribute for each extension element to specify the desired shortcut.