[Sorry for the delay - the day job .. ]
On Thu February 2 2006 07:58, Oliver Specht wrote:
> Hi,
> after discussion with some colleagues here in Hamburg I want to describe
> how a solution could look like:
>
> The Writer has two possible content types that could be extended to
> support the citation element (and other elements generically)
>
> The first is the text field (com.sun.star.text.TextField). A generic
> field service could be added to the API of the Writer that would have a
> property that contains a DOM tree. This DOM tree contains the
> citation-element. The bibliography creates the DOM tree of those fields
> and inserts them into the text together with a string that contains the
> presentation text.
This sounds quite interesting, is there already an example to play with (even
if it is another element)?
> Such fields can only be formatted as a whole. It is not possible to have
> e.g. parts of this presentation printed in bold. This text can not be
> spanned over paragraphs. The text cannot be changed manually.
Is this limitation acceptable for the biblio users ?
> Another possible solution is to add a new object that is similar to
> bookmarks (com.sun.star.text.Bookmark). This extended bookmark would
> also carry a DOM tree property. This 'bookmark' can span over formatted
> text longer than a paragraph. The user can modify the text inside of
> this bookmark easily.
>
> In both cases an interface to access the new elements needs to be
> implemented (sorted by document position).
>
> The DOM interfaces are in com.sun.star.xml.dom.
> (e.g. XDocument.idl, XNode.idl, XElement.idl)
>
> There's also a service com.sun.star.xml.dom.DocumentBuilder available
> that supports the creation of DOM trees.
Does this then mean that (only) a minor modification to either the Bookmark
or the TextField that we will get this DOM ?
> The bibliography component works on the DOM tree and can manipulate it
> independently. In case of using a field the component has to set the
> resulting string representation of the reference at this field.
>
> Using the field is a bit easier and using the bookmark is more powerful.
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