Hi First of all - thank you for a very nice, feature rich, highly configurable and quite user friendly XML-editor that brings XML-editing within reach of people (such as myself) who are not addicted to the press-five-keys-simultaneously nightmares of Emacs :-) >From browsing your home page I've noticed that you seem quite reluctant to increase the number of "managed entity references" - so I'm not going to ask you to do that. But you might consider giving your users an option to preserve references to unmanaged entities unchanged - simply giving the user the option to preserve unmanaged entity references unexpanded. To my judgement (which is probably not very reliable due to my lack of knowledge of the XXE source and structure) the change should not be too difficult or time consuming to implement. The only downside would be compromising the 'WYSIAWYG' nature of XXE. I write documentation in DocBook format (but unfortunately I can't use XXE due to its expansion of unmanaged entity references). To ensure consistent representation of product names and other terms relevant to a specific document I normally use local entity references (mostly CDATA) declared in the master document's DOCTYPE element. These entity references expand and work fine within the master document - but as correctly documented by you such entities are not managed when referenced within sub-documents (chapters/sections referenced from the master document as external SYSTEM entities). When the first entity reference is encountered in the sub-document (I suppose) XXE warns (if configured to do so) about the loss of physical structure that will be the consequence of continuing the editing session (ie. if you save your work afterwards :-) It would be a fantastic feature if the above dialog offered an option to 'Preserve unmanaged entity references in referenced documents unchanged'. That would allow users to edit the modular document without destroying its structure. The only downside would be the presence of unexpanded entity references in the referenced document. But the unmanaged references would be preserved to the benefit of other XML/XSLT-processors that might be used for processing the modular document at a later stage. I hope my explanation and suggestion for a 'workaround' is understandable. Otherwise please don't don't hesitate to contact me. Hopefully you will consider the idea which I hope is in fact as easy to implement as I think it is. Thank you for your cooperation - and thank you again for an XML-editor that makes DocBook editing an option to people who are not key members of the Norman Walsh nerd community.
Best regards Jan Nielsen Assisting Director Service and Support ALOC A/S ... Buchwaldsgade 35 ... DK-5000 Odense C ... Denmark Phone: +45 6313 6100 ... Direct phone: +45 6313 6117 E-mail: jann at aloc.dk <mailto:jann at aloc.dk> ... Internet: www.aloc.com <http://www.aloc.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20050622/b06be951/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 29238 bytes Desc: Outlook.jpg Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20050622/b06be951/attachment.jpeg
