Thank you for your suggestions. In the next version of Oxygen each of
the Link actions available on the toolbar with custom actions for the
DITA topic document type (insert a cross reference - xref, a file
reference, a web link or a related link) will allow choosing a file or
an ID from a file as the target of the reference with a dialog in which
the target file can be selected with the help of a file chooser. We will
consider also your two suggestions for inserting such references by drag
and drop or by selecting the target element and pasting the id at the
insertion point.
Thank you for your suggestions,
Sorin
Seraphim Larsen wrote:
It would be nice to have a better method for inserting the hrefs for
<xref>, <link>, <conref>, and <image>.
As far as I can tell, the current feature set allows you to insert these
elements, but then you need to hand-code the href.
Would be nice to have a dialog box that allows you to select the target
file -- for example, something like the way you can currently insert
conrefs.
Even nicer, it would be great to be able to drag-and-drop from the
Project pane. For example, drag a topic file, and drop into an open
DITA file (in Text or Author view), and an xref is inserted.
Ctrl-drag, and a Related Link is inserted. Drag a graphic, and an
<image> element is inserted, with the href already correctly defined.
To get an xref to a particular element, it would be nice to have a
feature something like this:
* Select the target element
* Select menu item "Create xref to target element", which results in
the following:
o If the selected element has no id attribute, an id attribute
is created, or a dialog box opens, telling the user to
specify the id attribute
o The clipboard is then populated with the <xref> element with
the href already correctly defined.
o An optional dialog box could appear, telling the user that
the xref has been formed and is on the clipboard
* You then go to the place where you want to put the xref, and just
paste it in.
o Oxygen should adjust the syntax of the href, depending on
where the user pastes it in. This would not just be a
simple copy-paste, but would require some additional
intelligence from Oxygen:
+ If the xref is pointing to content in the same file,
the following syntax is used (as per the DITA Language
Spec
<http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/langspec/langref/xref.html#xref__attrs>):
href="#topicID"
href="#topicID/elemID
+ If the xref target is in a different file:
href="filename.dita#topicID"
href="fname.dita#topicID/elemID"
It would be nice to have similar copy/paste functionality for conrefs.
Much easier than navigating through a dialog box.
Thanks,
Seraphim
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