Adobe 29180248 User Guide - Page 9

MXI tag descriptions

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MXI tag descriptions

The tags used in the extension installation file are described below. Attribute names enclosed in

curly braces (

{ }

) are optional. The tags are listed according to their position with the MXI file

hierarchy. For example, the macromedia-extension tag is the main tag within the file, and is the

first tag described.

menuitem

Describes the menu item to be inserted into the

application’s menu structure during installation of an

extension.

No

format

Describes the data format to be inserted into the

Dreamweaver Format menu during installation of

the extension.

No

separator

Specifies that a separator be inserted into a menu at the

location indicated by the containing

menu-insert

tag.

No

comment

Provides a comment about an item being inserted into the

menu structure. The Extension Manager inserts this

comment (in the form of an XML comment tag) into the

menus.xml file as it installs the extension.

No

shortcut-remove

Indicates that the specified keyboard shortcut should be

removed from the menus.xml file.

No

shortcut-insert

Indicates that a keyboard shortcut should be added to the

menus.xml file.

No

shortcut

Specifies a keyboard shortcut to be added to the

menus.xml file.

No

taglibrary-changes

Describes changes to be made to the TagLibraries.vtm

file.

Yes

toolbar-changes

Inserts the specified tag library at the end of the file.

Yes

extensions-changes

Container tag that describes any changes to the

Extensions.txt file, such as adding or removing

extensions that you can open in Dreamweaver.

Yes

Tags and their compatible

products

Container tag that allows you to specify tokens. Tokens

let you specify the destination folder of one or more files

from your extension during installation or provide a

dialog box for the user to choose a destination folder for

certain files.

Yes

token

Defines a custom token for an extension.

Custom tokens let you specify the destination folder of

one or more files from an extension during installation,

or provide a dialog box for the user to choose a

destination folder.

No

Tag

Description

Contains Child Tags?

Section	Page
Packaging Extensions with Extension Manager CS5	4
Choose the extension package format	5
Create the extension installation file	6
About careful XML coding	7
Encoding characters	7
MXI tag summary	7
MXI tag descriptions	9
macromedia-extension	10
defaultLanguage	12
description	13
update	14
license-agreement	14
ui-access	15
products	15
product	16
author	18
files	19
file	19
file-tokens	24
token	24
configuration-changes	25
documenttype-changes	26
documenttype-insert	26
documenttype-remove	27
toolpanel-changes	27
toolpanel-item-insert	28
ftp-extension-map-changes	28
ftp-extension-insert	29
ftp-extension-remove	29
insertbar-changes	30
insertbar-insert	30
insertbar-remove	31
insertbar-item-insert	32
insertbar-item-remove	32
server-behavior-changes	33
server-format-changes	33
server-format-definition-changes	34
data-source-changes	34
menu-insert	35
menu-remove	37
menubar	37
menu	38
menuitem	39
format	40
separator	41
comment	41
shortcut-insert	42
shortcut-remove	42
shortcutlist	43
shortcut	43
taglibrary-changes	44
taglibrary-insert	44
taglibrary-remove	45
toolbar-changes	45
toolbar-insert	46
toolbar-remove	46
toolbar-item-insert	47
toolbar-item-remove	48
extensions-changes	48
extension-insert	49
extension-remove	49
Tags and their compatible products	51
Example MXI file	53
Creating multilingual extension packages (version 2.1 and later)	54
Enabling multilingual support in an MXI file	54
Setting up the folder hierarchy for localized XML files	55
Formatting XML for language-specific strings	55
Installing localized files	55
Configuration changes	56
Creating a ZXP extension package (version 5.0 only)	56
Sign ZXP format extension	56
Validate ZXP format extension	57
Creating Hybrid Extension packages (version 5.0 only)	57
Use file-type attribute	57
Use default-file-type attribute	57
Creating plug-in extension packages for InDesign CS5 and InCopy CS5 (version 5.0 only)	58
Creating Enable_for_all_disable_for_one extension packages	58
Creating Enable_for_one_disable_for_one extension packages	58
Creating updatable extension packages (version 5.0 only)	59
Creating update information file	59
Checking update upon launch of Extension Manager	60
Use Extension Manager from the command line	60
Parameter definitions	60
Attribute definitions	60
Parameter formats	61
Command execution result	61
Headless mode	61
\	62
Return code(Extension Manager CS5 only)	62
Execute command through BridgeTalk	62
Examples:	62
Install extension through CLI	62
\	62
\	63
\	63
\	63
\	63
\	63
\	63
\	64
Invalid parameters	64
Valid irregular parameters (which support dragging or double-clicking to install and package)	64
Use Extension Manager from the graphical user interface (GUI)	65

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