Hi,
-----Original Message-----
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 17. juni 2003 13:29
To: Kevin Flynn
Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com
Subject: Re: [XXE] Some wishes
Kevin Flynn wrote:
>+ 1 ...
>+ - the ability to filter the ID elements displayed in the menu (using
an XPath expression or even just an element name)?
>+
>+ I use ID/IDREF for a variety of different purposes in my documents,
and it
>+ would be great to be able to display only the IDs that are actually of
>+ interest in a given context.
>+
>+ 2 An XXE-CSS command that enabled the display of an element to be
>+ constructed from the result of an XPath expression would be great
(one could
>+ then, for example, display the actual title of a cross-referenced
section).
>+ I know XXE only implements a subset of XPath, but even a subset would
>+ presumably open up quite a few possibilities...
+ I don't think that the subset of XPath currently implemented in XXE is
+ powerful enough. You could just use it to search an element or an
+ attribute in the *subtree* of the element which is the target of the CSS
+ rule. And for what you want to do, this is not enough.
I have the same needs:
1. to filter the ID elements for set-attribute-button() (e.g. by element
name e.g. "tag", i.e as XPath "//tag/@id-attr") (important and
urgent for me)
Initially the name of the ID attribute can be ignored. But for
compatibility with XPath it should be specified.
2. the possibility to display in the styled view some attributes of an
object referred by means of IDREF. (important, but not so urgent for me)
A consequence of this would be the wish to have the possibility to
display these attributes also in the ID selection list (hence becoming a
kind of ID selection table).
When will there be a solution available?
Btw. in XML schema there is an appropriate mechanism to define keys and
references as a solution to 1.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#cIdentity-constraint_Definitions
Is this mechanism exploited in XMLmind Professional?
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Best regards
Michael H?bner
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