Add XML Tools item to Context Menu

Manuel Collado

Hello
I am trying to add a XML Tools plugin Item in the Context Menu. The name of the item is “Convert selection text to XML (&& lt; && gt; => <>)”. I have added this line to the contextMenu.xml file:
<Item FolderName = “XML Tools” PluginEntryName = “XML Tools” PluginCommandItemName = “Convert selection text to XML (&& lt; && gt; => <>)” ItemNameAs = “Replace lt and gt” />

I have tried to replace the escape characters with their corresponding string, but it does not work.

Can you help me?

Thank you.

Claudia Frank

@Manuel-Collado

my first thought was does it not have to be escaped instead - like

&amp;&amp;lt;&amp;&amp;gt; ...

because when xml parser parses this line

“Convert selection text to XML (&& lt; && gt; => <>)”

I would expect an error complaining that & & isn’t correct.

Cheers
Claudia

Manuel Collado

Hi Claudia
I have tried with:

(Note that I put a space between & and following char for the correct display in the forum. In the file code this space does not exist)

but it still does not work. :(

Claudia Frank

Hi Manuel,

there are a couple of spaces in your post which, if used, are incorrect.
What I tried, using python script, is this string

Convert selection text to XML (&amp;&amp;lt;&amp;&amp;gt; =&gt; &lt;&gt;)

Btw. do you use a different localization?

Cheers
Claudia

Claudia Frank

@Manuel-Collado

but this string isn’t working when adding to contextmenu - strange.
Is additional c escaping needed? Need to check.

Cheers
Claudia

Claudia Frank

@Manuel-Collado

Hi Manuel,

you need to do exactly the opposite from what we thought needs to be done.
Omit the first two && to get

    <Item PluginEntryName="XML Tools" PluginCommandItemName="Convert selection text to XML (lt;gt; =&gt; &lt;&gt;)" />

If you are interested in why this is the case checkout the
purgeMenuItemString function with having in mind that it will be called with keepAmpersand=false in this case.

Cheers
Claudia

Manuel Collado

It works now!!
Thank you Claudia