Michael Huebner wrote: > Hi, > > we have some wishes for the further development of XXE. > > 1. Enable buttom-up (or mixed) style of document development, e.g. by > (optional) providing a special "wild card" element that can be > inserted every where in the XML tree. The "wild card" element content > definition should allow an arbitrary element. Every wild card > element is by definition illegal content. So you need two ways to > save an XML file: as a draft or as a valid document. In the later > case all wild card elements and their content sub-tree is discarded. > > 2. Allow to wrap an existing element within a newly created element. > If this breaks the given document structure the result has to be > wrapped in an wild card element.
I have a similar problem in a schema-evolution scenario. What I would ask for is a 'repair mode' that allows insert, paste or convert operations that break the schema conformance. The editor could warn about invalid structures by rendering them in a dimmed color (or similar). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Manuel Collado Machuca | Facultad de Informatica UPM Universidad Politecnica de Madrid | Campus de Montegancedo Dep. LSIIS | Boadilla del Monte Tel.+34-91-336.74.57 Fax.+34-91-336.74.12 | 28660 MADRID - SPAIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------
