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[Ruan Strydom]

How does the duchain work in something like JSP, does it switch mime types, 
context etc. Cause there you will have an xml like structure or xml (with a 
scema) mixed with code and both needs to complete.


On Sunday 25 October 2009 03:40:51 pm Hugo Parente Lima wrote:
> On Sunday 25 October 2009 12:25:39 Milian Wolff wrote:
> > On Monday 19 October 2009 22:48:59 Hugo Parente Lima wrote:
> > > On Monday 19 October 2009 23:06:33 Ruan Strydom wrote:
> > > > > What's about them? You need getters and setters for XML? Or do you
> > > > > mean a XML- KDevelop-plugin? Maybe you should look at Quanta.
> > > > > (although it's definitely not full-featured)
> > > >
> > > > For a living I am a java developer.  So I am used to netbeans /
> > > > eclipse. These have very nice xml/schema designers. They auto
> > > > complete etc, when you add a schema location they download and import
> > > > them for auto completion. Whats nice is that they are generic (the
> > > > designers) and can be used for configuration etc, like maven/ant ,
> > > > web.xml, spring etc...
> > >
> > > The eclipse one is based on DTD's, so the autocompletion works for any
> > > XML, you just had to have the DTD available.
> > >
> > > Yesterday I tought about creating a program that parsers any DTD and
> > > create a QStateMachine, because I tought that this was the better
> > > aprouch to create XML/HTML support (auto-completion) into kdevelop...
> > > but I known nothing about how kdevelop handles autocompletion, so I
> > > forgot this idea
> > >
> > >  :-/
> >
> > I can tell you what PHP does:
> > It tokenizes the code until the position you requested code completion
> > at, and gives you completion items based on the last token(s). Then there
> > is a little special-casing when you are inside a class context, but other
> > than that, it's theoretically pretty simple.
> >
> > I've never used a QStateMachine (and since I don't study computer science
> >  I'm not really sure how one would use a state machine for code
> > completion, always thought this was for parsers or animations) so no help
> > from me there :)
> 
> State machines are only useful for XML auto completion based on DTD's,
>  because you don't have variables, etc... so is all very simple (in
>  comparison to the use case of C++ and PHP), you just have a context and
>  what would be in this context.
> 
> P.S.: by the way, I sent this email some days ago, however using a wrong
>  email address which was not registered in this mailing list, sorry for
>  that :-/
>