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Chapter 12. Working with Archives
<oXygen/> offers the means to manipulate files directly from ZIP type archives. By manipulation one should understand
opening and saving files directly in archives, browsing and modifying archive structures. The archive support is
available for all ZIP-type archives, for JAR and ODF formats and for IDML files which are also based on the ZIP
archive format. This means that you can modify, transform, validate files directly from OOXML or ODF packages.
Using files directly from archives
Now you can transform, validate and perform many other operations on files directly from an archive. When selecting
an URL for a specific operation like transformation or validation you can click the Browse for archived file button
to navigate and choose the file from a certain archive.
Browsing and modifying archives' structure
You can navigate archives directly in the Archives Browser either by opening them from the Navigator or by using
the integration with the Eclipse File System.
For the EFS (Eclipse File System) integration you must right click the archive in the Navigator and choose Expand
Zip Archive. All the standard Eclipse Navigator actions are available on the mounted archive. If you decide to close
the archive you can use the Collapse ZIP Archive action located in the contextual menu for the expanded archive. Any
file opened from the archive expanded in the EFS will be closed when the archive in unmounted.
Warning
The ZIP support needs the IBM437 character set to be properly installed in the Java Runtime Environment in
order to be able to navigate/open ZIP archives. If you encounter an error message when expanding a ZIP archive
about the JVM that is missing a charset then the JVM used to run Eclipse does not have the character set library
properly installed.
If you open an archive as an Eclipse editor, the archive will be unmounted when the editor is closed.
Important
If a file extension is not known by <oXygen/> as a supported archive type you can add it from the Archive
preferences page .
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