Well, personally, I think it's silly to give users a ditabase template with a generic topic inserted and make them convert the tag to something else.
To my mind, it's much better delivering empty dita tags and letting the user insert the element they want--assuming that inserting that element will turn off lenient mode. But you STILL didn't answer my question :-) Are elementTemplates supposed to be available when in lenient mode or not? Again, if they were available, it would solve the problem of the first inserted child coming in invalid. Of course, the best solution to this problem (possibly avoiding the need for lenient mode altogether) would be to prompt the user when there is a choice of required elements. A number of other editors have this feature. -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:19 AM To: Mark Fletcher Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] RE: ditabase.dtd bug Mark Fletcher wrote: > I'm not sure you answered my question about elementTemplates. As I > said, my elementTemplates are valid. (But the document template is > not.) > > Is it by design that elementTemplates are not available when editing > in lenient mode? If so, why not? It seems that this could smarten up > the "semi-dumb" behavior of lenient mode. :-) If this is not by > design, could I add this fix to the Wish List? > I'm sorry but I don't understand why it would be useful to improve the lenient mode, a feature which is almost never used.
