I may not be understanding your answer, but I'm not trying to delete an element or an attribute. It's a link ID I'm trying to remove. After inserting my xref, I had to enter a name for the text I wanted to link to...I did that by entering the name in the Attribute ID value field. The text I set up that ID for is no longer anything I want to have available in the list of IDs to select from when creating links, but I can't see how or those IDs can be deleted.
Thanks again for your help. Diane -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:35 AM To: Diane Rainaud Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] How to delete a link ID Diane Rainaud wrote: > I'm brand new to using XMLmind editor and have what is probably a very > basic question. While "playing" with a document to learn this > software, I created a link ID (Insert xref) with a value of "Test". > Now I'd like to delete that so it no longer displays in the list of > IDs in the Select ID" dialog box. I don't believe anything is linked > to that ID (and that's a separate question...how can I tell if that ID > is being used?) but can't figure out how to delete it. With XMLmind XML Editor, all elements are treated the same. To delete an element: 1/ Select it. For example, click on the xref and you'll see a red box around it. 2/ Delete it. For example, click on the trash can icon of the toolbar or press on the Del key or press Ctrl-K. --> If it does not work, it means that the DTD does not allow this operation. For example, you cannot delete the title of a section. Of course, an xref can *always* be deleted. The fact that the xref has an ID or is a link to another place does not matter: it is always possible to delete it. To delete an attribute: 1/ Display the Attribute tab, if needed to. 2/ Select the element containing the attribute. For example, click on the xref and you'll see a red box around it. 3/ Click on the attribute name in the Attribute tab. Example: click on "id". 4/ Use the iconic button with a big blue minus sign found in the Attribute tab to delete the attribute. (Alternatively you can right click on the attribute name and select Remove from the popup menu.) --> If it does not work, it means that the DTD does not allow this operation. For example, you cannot delete the linkend of an xref. Playing with XMLmind XML Editor is not the right way to learn this software. There are things in it that are impossible to guess. Please, take the time to read our tutorial: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/user/userguidetoc.html or http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/user/userguide.pdf Yes, the tutorial is based on XHTML but that does not matter at all. Everything which is teached in it (concepts!) can be applied to all the other document types.
