Kevin Flynn wrote: > It seems to be the case that you cannot use local namespace variables in > xpathSearch expressions. In other words: > > <cfg:get expression="$view:searchString"/> > <cfg:command name="xpathSearch" > parameter="following::*[contains(@id,'%_')][1]" /> > > works, but > > <cfg:command name="xpathSearch" parameter="following::*[contains(@id, > $view:searchString)][1]" /> > > doesn't. > > It took me a while to find out that this was the cause of my problems, so > it's probably worth documenting.
Right. ``$variables'' only work in cfg:get, cfg:set, cfg:test, cfg:match (and that's not very intuitive, I agree with that). We'll make that clear in the documentation. > Incidentally, the reason I am using xpathSearch here rather doing this: > > <cfg:set variable="selectedElement" context="$selectedElement" expression=" > following::*[contains(@id, $view:searchString)][1]"/> > > is that xpathSearch forces collapsed elements to be expanded. Yes. > Is there any > other way to do this programmatically? If not, can I add it to the wish > list? > Programmatically? Yes. You can do anything you want in Java[tm]. I suppose that your question is in fact: how can I do that in a macro? Answer: use command "toggleCollapsed". See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/toggleCollapsed.html
