Allen Bierbaum wrote: > > Hussein Shafie wrote: > > Kevin Flynn wrote: > > > >>The attribute editor for IDREF attributes in XXE 2 is an ordinary edit > >>field. In the old prototype version, it was a drop-down field containing a > >>list of all available ID attributes, thus making it impossible to enter > >>invalid values. > > > > > > This was a very bad idea. If you edit a Chapter of a Book, you really > > need to be able to specify an invalid IDREF for an ID defined in another > > Chapter. > > It may be a bad idea in some cases, but it is VERY helpful and > time-saving in many other cases. I know that in our group, the lack of > this single feature is what is keeping using another XML editor instead > of XXE.
Just this feature? Which other XML editor? ;-) > If there was some way to combine a plain edit field with a drop down > list, that may be the best solution. Maybe something where you can > input any text you want, but the drop down list provides a set of known > ids that you can select from if you wish. This was precisely my idea. I'll try to do that for V20final.
