Re: GtkSourceView - Is it possible to create a composite language definition? (XML + Script)

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Hi,

Il giorno gio, 05/03/2009 alle 06.06 -0800, pwnedd ha scritto:
> I would like to create a language definition for handling Adobe Flex .mxml
> files, which are a combination of XML and ActionScript
> (http://blog.flexexamples.com/ has some examples of what the code looks
> like). The main part of the document is XML, and is parsed fine by the
> GTKSourceView XML language definition.
> 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540935 has some syntax files
for mxml attached that may good or that may need further work...

> The question I have is- is it possible to specify that the XML language
> definition should be used for the document everywhere except inside of CDATA
> blocks, in which case xxxx language definition should be used? This way I
> could write a language definition for ActionScript, and then have the mxml
> definition use that for the CDATA blocks.
> 

Yes, this is possible you have to "replace" the xml cdata block with a
custom one: see how docbook.lang replaces the generic xml element with
docbook tags.

Hope that helps,

	Paolo

> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith