Hussein, Thanks again for this information. We are looking into writing load & save routines for the plugin interface, hoping to be able to do so in a configurable way, but also trying to leverage our existing XSLT using JAXP. To do the tag mapping both ways, we need to be able to add extended attributes to DocBook tags, especially to sections. Writers will need to be able to insert DocBook tags and add their own extended attributes, mapping to semantic tags. This is a bit odd and perhaps somewhat cumbersome, but it's necessary for the mapping to semantic tags, and semantic tags are important for use in other contexts, and for reuse. I have had trouble adding an attribute to a DocBook tag in the Standard Edition. I can enter the tag name and value in the attribute editor, but the added tag does not seem to get added to the tag list. Should this be possible in the Standard Edition? Thanks very much, Carl Castro
-----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:20 AM To: Carl Castro Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] Questions about Customizing XMLEditor Carl Castro wrote: > Thanks again for this information on format plugins. We are intending to > prototype some format plugins for our own semantic tags. > I am wondering whether it is really necessary to have a CSS file if we > provide a two-way mapping between DocBook tags and our own semantic tags. > We would like to minimize the number of entities we must maintain for this > solution, and also to support configurability so that documentation writers > may easily change tag mappings. If you are writing a format plug-in which: * reads your own semantic tags and converts them on the fly to DocBook; * when saving a file opened this way, converts on the fly what looks like plain DocBook to your own semantic tags; then the format plug-in should include (i.e. embedded in the .jar) no CSS (and even no DTD) at all. We have never tested this, but in principle the default XXE DocBook configuration will be automatically applied to documents opened this way. If this don't work, just tell us and we'll try to fix the problem. --- PS: Really, really make sure that you can convert DocBook back to your own semantic tags. Without this working at 100%, the idea of using a format plug-in is a bad one.
