Shawn Giese wrote: > Hello, I am using V2.5 Patch 1 and am in the process of verifying 2 > documents... one of which will go to the translator for updating. The > document causing the problems has been imported from Framemaker SGML where > it had used DocBook 3.something. The Framemaker Document opens fine in XXE > though it does have about 300 validity problems (most of which are graphic > link related) > > Problem 1, I cannot delete "id"s set by Framemaker... for example, Sect1 > says id=BABGGIJJ and I want to get rid of it completely. If I replace it > with something else it is okay but if I try to delete it I get > ERROR > Syntax error in NCName value ""
You cannot remove an attribute by simply deleting the characters contained in its value. You need to select the attribute in the Attribute tool and then click on the button displaying a dark blue minus icon (found below the Attribute table, in the Attribute tool). > Problem 2 > When I do replace the "id"s set by framemaker with new "id"s from another > XML document I cannot immediately paste the response into the sect1(or > chapter or whatever) "id" field UNLESS I ALT-TAB out of XXE and back in... > then it works fine. > > So I > a) highlight id text from old document > b) copy id text to clipboard > c) select new document (which is already open) > d) select the correct sect1 > e) highlight that sect1's "id" tag > f) ALT-TAB to any other program.. i.e. out of XXE > g) ALT-TAB back in > h) paste text into the highlighted field > > I think that steps f & g are bugs somehow. From what I have understood, I cannot reproduce this behavior (on Linux or on Windows 2000, I have not tested this on Mac). > Problem 3 > After finishing all of this the active document is the new document. If I > try to go to a "para" text and edit it I cannot use the keyboard (like > backspace, space, letters... anything) BUT I can right click on my mouse and > use one of the drop down menus. If I reselect (click it) the first document > and then reselect the new document (click it) then I can use the keyboard on > the text. Sorry but I cannot reproduce this behavior. In order to be able to help you solve what seems to be focus problems, you need to specify: * Which version of Java you are using. * On which platform you are running XXE. * If you are using XXE on Unix, which window manager you are using. Sending us sample XML files exported by Framemaker would help us too (because I'm not sure to understand what they are). > PLEASE NOTE that in all cases I am using the tree view since I am working > with multi-language versions of the same document and because I am cleaning > up the horrible XML of Framemaker's export. XXE does not make much differences between the tree view and the styled view. Similar problems could also occur with the styled view. PS: XXE is not designed to clean up massively invalid XML files. XXE is designed to be an authoring tool. I would not use XXE to do this. I would rather use a text editor, at least for first passes of correction, in conjunction with a command line validator such as dtdvalid or xsdvalid (found in XXE distribution).
