A smarter XML completion in NetBeans - Part I

submited by krishnas on Thu Nov 29th, 2007

If you are used to heavily editing XML files in NetBeans, you would have wished for the code completion assistance to be a bit smarter. As an example, let us take the case of editing a Spring Framework Beans Configuration file. I want to add an tag to the XML configuration file. This tag has two required attributes: name and alias. It all starts by invoking the code completion assistance by typing in '<'. The following dialog shows up:

Topic: netbeans