A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

oXygen Eclipse plugin

oXygen XML/XSLT: http://www.oxygenxml.com/download_oxygenxml_editor.html#Eclipse
  • it's not all that, but step-through-debugging does work
  • have to manually set the file association defaults to Oxygen types
  • unreadable default colour scheme for Oxygen filetypes. It is difficult to import syntax-highlighting preferences in Eclipse. You're better off setting them yourself.
  • to use step-through debugging, you need to:
    • 'Configure Transformation Scenario' (under XML/XSL menu - it appears when you open an XML or XSL file)
    • open the 'Debug Scenario' perspective in the XML/XSL menu
  • setting the input parameters for debugging is fiddly
  • the XML file being used as input must be "part of the project"