XML Entity Catalog

This is the home page for the XML Entity Catalog module.

Introduction

This module allows you to persistently mount entity catalogs. This implementation support NetBeans native catalog and standard XML catalog. Module also offer SPI to support another catalog implementation plug in.

Icons

This section contains a list of the icons used in this module.

Icon	File	Description	Usage
	sysCatalog.gif	This icon represents Netbeans system Catalog.	SystemCatalogReaderBeanInfo.java
	xmlCatalog.gif	This icon represents OASIS Catalog.	XCatalogBeanInfo.java
	sunCatalog.gif	This icon represents Sun's Resolver 1.1.	CatalogBeanInfo.java
	catalog-entry.gif	This icon represents Entity Catalog Entry.	CatalogEntryBeanInfo.java
	catalog-root.gif	This icon represents Root of all mounted Entity Catalogs.	CatalogRootNode.java

FAQs

How can I use entity catalogs?

Go to the Runtime window, right-click the Entity Catalogs node and mount a new catalog. All parsers used in the module use catalogs mounted under the node.

Which catalog formats are supported?

You can choose NetBeans Catalog (understands NetBeans in memory format used by modules), XML Catalog (understands XML Catalog v0.2 and v0.4 formats) or Sun's Resolver (understands XML Catalog, XML Catalog v0.4 and TR9401 formats).

Links

XML Catalogs

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/specs/cs-entity-xml-catalogs-1.0.html
XML Catalogs Committee Specification 1.0, 24 Oct 2002

Source Code

http://xml.netbeans.org/source/browse/xml/catalog/