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Magento 2 Cookbook

You're reading from   Magento 2 Cookbook Exploring Magento 2 in the form of recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785887062
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Magento 2 on Apache and NGINX 2. Magento 2 System Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Enabling Performance in Magento 2 4. Creating Catalogs and Categories 5. Managing Your Store 6. Creating a Magento 2 Theme 7. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – the Basics 8. Creating Magento 2 Extensions – Advanced Index

Creating your own XML module configuration file


In Magento 1.x, it was possible to use the .xml file to include custom configuration options that might be necessary for an extension. This is no longer possible with Magento 2 because the XML files are all validated against a schema and anything other than predefined options are not allowed. To solve this, it is possible to generate your own custom XML file to set up the parameters that you need. This also allows other extensions to define settings as the output is generated from all modules that have this file configured.

Getting ready

In order to use your own XML configuration file, it is important that you generate a valid schema (XSD) file that will be used to validate the XML files when they are merged.

How to do it…

The following steps show you how to define a custom XML configuration file for your module:

  1. First, we create the Reader for the XML file and define the name of the file that should be read from all modules:

    Model/Sample/Reader...

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