On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:54:00PM -0500, Diane Rainaud wrote:
> Am I missing something basic in XMLmind - is there a way to display
> such a list other than the 'Select ID' window since you can't delete
> from the 'Select ID' window? And if there is no such list from which
> I can delete the unwanted ID, any hints on how to find where it's
> being used?
At this time, there is not a general enough mechanism to locate such
things within an XML document using the XXE interface. However, the
first item (as of this writing) on the Users' Wish List[0] will help us
with this and many other problems in the future! When we have advanced
(hopefully structurally-aware) search capabilities within XXE, we may be
able to run a search directly for the attribute you want to zap. The
search string may look like:
//*...@id="conclusions"]
Of course, that requires knowledge of XPath, but the interface may
provide assistance in constructing such queries.
If such a general search facility is then exposed as a command[1], we
can even implement more meaningful and powerful high-level operations,
such as "remove all attributes matching this pattern", which would give
you enough control to pinpoint and zap specific id attributes as well as
others in clusters. I am greatly excited by both the present and future
potential for this software!
Take care,
John L. Clark
[0] http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/wish_list.html
[1] http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/commands/ch06.html
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