Hi Hussein, Thanks for answering all the questions I've submitted over the past few days. And I promise to start using the public mailing list for my questions :-) But, since we're on the subject of "lenient" mode...
I appreciate that XXE lets me open an invalid template and then insert a child to make it valid. And the interface does make it clear that there is something wrong with the dita element. My problem is that: a) inserting the first child--which should make the empty dita element valid--doesn't try to enforce validity on that first child; b) lenient mode evidently doesn't display elementTemplates in the picklist. Again, when I insert a second child into to the dita tags, that child is inserted with the required first child (title) and with the id attribute highlighted as required. Why doesn't this happen when I insert the first child? I tried to get around the problem by creating valid elementTemplates for each of those children (using selectable="override"), thinking that these would be what the user would be allowed to choose from and insert. But the elementTemplates aren't available in the pick list until lenient mode is off, I guess? Mark -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:56 AM To: Mark Fletcher Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: ditabase.dtd bug Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I'm seeing weird behavior when I create a new file based on the > ditabase.dtd: > > > * I create the file from a template which just contains <dita></dita> > * In the pick list to insert elements, I see the four valid choices > (concept, reference, task, topic), plus a grayed-out asterisk. > * When I insert one of the elements, it is inserted invalidly: > required attributes (id) and children (title) are not > automatically inserted. All validation on that element then seems > to be broken because can insert all of that element's child > elements in any order, any number of times. > * If I then insert another child into dita, that child's validation > is fine. > However if, after inserting the first child into dita, I provide that > child's required child element (a title), XXE starts behaving normally > again. You have perfectly described XXE's lenient mode, one of its most advanced features. > It appears that there's a problem handling dita's "one or more" > definition: <!ELEMENT dita (topic|task|reference|concept)+ > > Dear sir, do you really think after all those years, XXE has problems handling "one or more" content models? A template which only contains "<dita></dita>" is an *invalid* element template. In this case, XXE works in lenient mode[*] until the invalid element is fixed. In summary, with XXE, garbage in (your template) means garbage out (XXE's lenient mode). --- [*] In the node path bar, word "dita" is underlined in orange which means "I'm in lenient mode". Plus, the validity icon is "red" and the validity tool says: "the sequence of child elements is incorrect [cvc-complex-type.2.4]". Therefore it is hard to not to notice there is something wrong with your document. --- PS: Please, please, always use the public support mailing list.
