Jeremy Quinn wrote:
>
> An issue for us is the layout of 'main' and 'side' regions, side by
> side.
>
> The XML:
>
> <doc>
> <section region="header">
> <!-- header content -->
> </section>
> <section region="main">
> <!-- main content -->
> </section>
> <section region="side">
> <!-- sidebar content -->
> </section>
> <section region="footer">
> <!-- footer content -->
> </section>
> </doc>
>
> Gets transformed to <div/>s and laid out like this:
>
> +---------------+
> | head |
> +---------------+
> +--------+ +----+
> | | | s |
> | main | | i |
> | | | d |
> | | | e |
> +--------+ +----+
> +---------------+
> | foot |
> +---------------+
>
> In the browser, we use the CSS property 'float' to handle this.
> (We don't use any HTML Tables, we prefer not to use Absolute
> positioning, the CSS Table model is not reliably handled by most
> browsers, so float is all we can use).
>
> I am wondering how we will be able to replicate this type of layout in
> XXE.
>
> Float is not supported, and I cannot get CSS Table Model to work,
> because we do not have enough tags to apply it to and XXE does not seem
> to cope with 'anonymous tables'.
>
> Have you any suggestions?
You have explained the problem very well: ``I cannot get CSS Table Model
to work because we do not have enough tags to apply it'' (unless you
want to style <doc> as a table)
Therefore, for your types of documents, with XXE, you'll not be able to
be as WYSIWYG as you want.
> I have not tried absolute positioning yet ..... but without support for
> 'width:' and 'height:' I suspected it was not going to work.
No need to try it: absolute positioning is not supported.
> Even though this works in the xhtml demo, I cannot get "display:
> marker;" to work on my list elements. Is there a special trick?
Markers are drawn in the margin of a block. Therefore you must specify a
large margin for your list items to give room to the bullets.
Example:
li {
margin-left: 2.5ex;
}
li:before {
display: marker;
content: disc;
}
> New <p></p> on press RETURN, is something that works in the demos, but
> I cannot get it to work on mine, any suggestions of what to look for?
The Enter keystroke is bound to command called insertControlCharOrSplit
(Menu "Help|Mouse and Key Bindings" displays this kind of information).
This command is described in the Power User's Guide:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/poweruser/ar01s05s16.html
This command will work with any DTD or XML-Schema provided that you type
Enter in a ``paragraph-like'' element (and, of course, it must not be
styled using "white-space: pre;" because in such case, a newline
character is inserted in the element.)
> font-style: italic; does not seem to have any effect.
There is no known bug related to "font-style: italic;" (this style is
used quite often). But I remember that, a few months ago, with some
fonts, on some platforms, "font-style: italic;" had no effect. Try to
change the font families used by XXE to see if there is an effect (Menu
Options|Options, Style tab).
If not, may be there is a problem with your CSS.
