Kevin Flynn wrote: > Like Manuel Collado, I don't find this behavior surprising, and I don't find > it annoying because I don't use the single window approach used in XXE's > default docbook support. Instead of having collapsing headings in the main > view I always display two views of the same document: a small one containing > a collapsing tree of headings only, which I use for navigation, and a main > one where everything is visible, which I use for editing. > > Clicking on a heading in the tree view displays the same heading in the main > view. You have a permanently visible overview of the document structure in > the tree view and at the same time, don't have any problem with accidentally > editing invisible text. > > The only problem with this approach is that XXE doesn't have any built-in > support for managing multiple views of the same document: I have to > explicitly open the second window after opening a document, and then resize > the windows. > > If I remember correctly, the last time the "multiple view" issue was brought > up, Hussein said either that it wasn't going to get done or that it had very > low priority (if I'm wrong, please accept my apologies in advance, Hussein).
Better support of "multiple view" editing is planned for XXE V3.0. > Anyway, here is a good reason for doing it: you can significantly improve > the editing experience for what I believe is XmlMind's primary market - > DocBook authors. I am not sure that DocBook authors are our primary market. After all, DocBook support is available for free, in Standard Edition. I can just say that XXE has not been designed specially to be a DocBook editor. Support of DocBook is available in XXE mainly because: * This XML application is useful to write complex technical documents. In such case, and in our opinion, only in such case (complex technical documents such as reference manuals), there is no need to reinvent the wheel. * This XML application is such a monster that taming it means being able to cope with anything else.
