maxwell wrote: > On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:04:07 +0100, Hussein Shafie <hussein at xmlmind.com> > wrote: >> XXE is extensible by downloading and installing add-ons. Therefore I >> suggest to package your custom configuration as an add-on. (More info >> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/contribute.html#package_addon) >> ... > > This looks like a good solution, however we can't figure out what this > step means: > >> Copy this add-on to a public HTTP server. Example: >> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/public/xxe/my_config.xxe_addon pointing to >> http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/public/xxe/my_config.zip > > It sounds like the URL > "http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/public/xxe/my_config.xxe_addon"; should somehow > "be" the file at "http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/public/xxe/my_config.zip"; > (which on some systems would be the file > /var/www/public/xxe/my_config.zip). But we're not sure how this aliasing > is done. One of our people who knows more about http servers than I do > wrote: > >> There are ways to configure Apache to feed different files >> based on filetypes, but that's a VERY unusual way to configure it. > > I tried just renaming the .zip file to .xxe_addon, but that doesn't work. > > Can you point me to how this is done? >
What follows is also described here: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/plugin.html#pack_addons * my_config.xxe_addon must start with --- <a:addon location="my_config.zip" --- That is, my_config.xxe_addon *points* to my_config.zip. * my_config.xxe_addon must be archived inside my_config.zip (at the same level as the other files comprising your add-on). * Also copy my_config.xxe_addon nearby my_config.zip Now, we have this: C:\temp> dir my_config.xxe_addon my_config.zip C:\temp> unzip -v my_config.zip my_config/my_config.xxe_addon my_config/foo.xxe my_config/foo.rnc ... * Let's suppose you have http://www.acme.com/~mike mapped to C:\Documents and settings\mike\public_html\ (This is often the case on Unix. Ask your sysadmin for more info.) Now do this: C:\temp> copy my_config.xxe_addon C:\Documents and settings\mike\public_html\ C:\temp> copy my_config.zip C:\Documents and settings\mike\public_html\ * Now tell your users to add http://www.acme.com/~mike/my_config.xxe_addon to the "Download add-ons from these servers" list displayed in Options|Preferences, "Install add-ons" section.
