Hussein, This is very useful (as always) and is simpler than what I had come up with.
Unfortunately the Windows version does not seem to work for a URL with a fragment identifier. My browser (Firefox) opens the document but misses the fragment identifier. Philip Hussein Shafie wrote: > Philip Nye wrote: > >>Can anyone suggest how I can open a default browser window to show a URL >>from within an XXE macro? I need to have this work on Linux and Windows >>so I may need two different methods. Is there a fairly simple way to do >>this? > > > No, there is no *simple* way to do this. But there should be one. > Therefore I've added a "viewHTML" command to XXE. You'll have it in next > release. > > Meanwhile, using XXE V2.11, you need to use command "start" (see > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/ch06s68.html) > with the following parameter: > > On Windows: > > start "" "%U" > > On MacOSX: > > open "%U" > > On Generic Unix: > > (mozilla -remote "openURL(%U)" 1> /dev/null 2>&1) || (mozilla "%U" &) > > Where %U=URL of the document to be displayed by the browser. > > On MacOSX and Generic Unix, ending the parameter with '&' is not needed > > Note that the double quotes (") are integral part of the command parameter. >
