Ronald Hayden wrote: > > This is probably a FAQ but I couldn't find anything on it:
No this is not a FAQ because I don't think that XXE is often used to edit documents which are not constrained by a grammar. > Is there a way to insert elements into a document when there is no DTD > present? I'd like to edit an arbitrary well-formed document, but the > insert commands appear to be no-ops when there is no DTD. Last time I used XXE to edit a document non-constrained by a grammar, I found it terribly unfriendly for the following reasons: * The Insert/Replace dialog or Edit tool does not automatically select Wildcard=* which is needed to let you enter an arbitrary element name. (<-- This is the answer to your question: use combobox Wildcard and manually select * before entering an element name.) * The Attributes tool does not automatically select Matched by wildcard=* which is needed to let you enter an arbitrary attribute name. * The Convert command is not really usable. * Element and attribute names already present in the instance could be remembered and made available in pick lists. * A newly inserted element is always created empty. Some of the above deficiencies should not be too difficult to fix and therefore we'll try to fix them in next release.
