Bernd Kuemmerlen wrote:
> by default, when inserting a docbook <glossentry>, XXE creates the
> following XML code:
>
> <glossentry>
> <glossterm></glossterm>
> <glosssee></glosssee>
> </glossentry>
>
> I guess this is automatically derived from the DTD, since the content
> model of <glossentry> looks like this:
>
> glossentry ::=
> (glossterm,acronym?,abbrev?,
> (indexterm)*,
> revhistory?,
> (glosssee|glossdef+))
True.
> The problem now is that I don't see a way of converting these
> glossentries to:
>
> <glossentry>
> <glossterm></glossterm>
> <glossdef></glossdef>
> </glossentry>
>
> which is what you want as a default most of the time.
Select element glosssee and *replace* it by element glossdef. For this
you need to use (rarely used) command Replace.
> I managed to *create* glossentries like this by creating the following
> template in my customization:
>
> <elementTemplate name="mydocbook" selectable="override">
> <glossentry xmlns="">
> <glossterm></glossterm>
> <glossdef><para></para></glossdef>
> </glossentry>
> </elementTemplate>
This was the right thing to do.
You are not limited to a single elementTemplate, so why not also add:
<elementTemplate name="see">
<glossentry xmlns="">
<glossterm></glossterm>
<glosssee></glosssee>
</glossentry>
</elementTemplate>
Notice the meaningful name and the absence of selectable="override".
> But now I have the inverse problem: I can't create a glossentry with a
> <glosssee> element inside.
>
> So my question is:
> Is there a reason why I can't convert a <glosssee> to a <glossdef> and
> vice-versa? (because that would be the only way to go from one to the
> other without breaking dtd conformance).
You cannot convert (i.e. using command Convert) the contents of a
glosssee to a glossdef and vice-versa because these elements have very
different content models.
In practice, a glossdef is *semantically* a very different beast from a
glosssee so this should not be very annoying.
Therefore here too, unless you have defined the right elementTemplates,
you need to use command Replace.
