On Monday, Jan 13, 2003, at 13:14 Europe/London, Hussein Shafie wrote:
> 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)
>
What I tried was this:
table {display:table}
section {display:table-column-group}
and
section {display:table-cell}
both attempts resulted in XXE switching to the Tree View, so I assumed
that XXE does not handle 'anonymous tables'.
We have <chapter/> elements in the <sections/> though we cannot turn
these into table-cell(s) as we would then get alignment problems ....
each <section/> is able to have an arbitrary number of <chapter/>s.
So I guess I'm stuck on this one .... oh well, we can live with it ;)
> 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.
>
OK
>
>
>> 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;
> }
>
>
Ah! Thanks for that!
>
>> 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.)
Hmmm, this is still not working for <p/>.
Could this be caused by the way I have written my XSD?
>> 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.
>
OK, I'll try changing fonts.
Thanks for your replies.
regards Jeremy
