[Geany] XML Colors

Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven at xxxxx
Fri Nov 3 16:14:53 UTC 2006


On 02/11/06 23:55:18, Rowan Lewis wrote:
> Enrico Tröger wrote:
>> On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:52:35 -0500, Bob Doan <bdoan at sicom.com> wrote:
>>> I was trying to figure out how to better color XML documents
>>> (Currently the document is mostly in red), but noticed that the
>>> syntax highlighting seems to be triggered on keywords.  Is there any
>>> easy to to fix this or will changes have to be made in the code?
>>> 
>> Not necessarily. Just copy $prefix/share/geany/filetypes.xml to
>> ~/.geany/filetypes.xml and edit it. Probably most things you can  
>> change
>> there. For more information about these files please read
>> http://geany.uvena.de/manual/ch04.html#filetypes and/or ask here  
>> again.
>> 
>> [...]
> Hey,
> 
> I'd like to note something about this, currently XML and HTML are  
> handled by the same style, which isn't correct since in HTML you have  
> a limited number of elements, and in XML you're able to create your  
> own unique elements. Right now, when working with say XSLT documents,  
> all the XSLT elements are marked with the unknown style (red), when  
> really, there shouldn't be any unknown style for XML documents.
> 
> I'd like to see that split up, so you have a HTML style which  
> includes the PHP, ASP and JavaScript support, but also a more general  
> XML style.
I've just sent a reply to Bob Doan about this ;-)
> 
> Also, I've noticed that XSLT files (.xsl application/xslt+xml) are  
> not considered XML, so it'd be great if they where :)
We'll add .xsl then :)

Regards,
Nick



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