Hussein Shafie wrote: > 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? ;-)
They are currently using Morphon (which has a drop down list). And, truely the pain of this one feature not being there is keeping them from switching. The reason is simply that we have a large number of is that we reference in our Docbook files. Requiring the users to remember of lookup each of these id's everytime they want to reference it is time-consuming and error-prone. -Allen > > >>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.
