Kevin Yank wrote: > We make extensive use of the support for external entities in XXE. > Unfortunately, we're running into some usability issues with this > functionality. > > The biggest of these is the loss of cursor position when opening a > referenced document for editing. A typical use case is that the user is > performing a document-wide search using the Find Element feature. At > each match, the user clicks "Edit referenced document" to open the > external entity and make a change, then clicks "Edit referencing > document" to return to the master document and continue the search. > > Unfortunately, the cursor position is lost when moving to the referenced > document, so the search must be repeated within that referenced document. > > In short, there is no practical workflow for conducting a document-wide > iterative search using the Find Element tool with a modular document. > > What would greatly improve this situation would be if the "Edit > referenced document" and "Edit referencing document" commands moved the > cursor in the target document to match its position in the current > document. Would this be practical to implement?
We'll try to improve this in next release. But I can't give you my word that you'll be able to do what you want. --- PS: When I say, I mean: we'll really *try* and but, often we will *fail* to properly implement the feature. For example, I've said to Cay Horstmann that we'll try to implement this ``When XXE complains about a bad child, the error report should point to the child, not to the parent.'' but we miserably failed to do so.
