> PS: In XXE, if you have a stylesheet available, you really never, ever, > need to use the tree view. If it is the case, may be you have missed > something in the tutorial. No offense intended and of course, I'm not > pretending that XXE is perfect. But the fact is that here at XMLmind, we > never, ever, use the tree view, just the styled view.
This comment surprised me. I edit fairly large DocBook books with XMLmind and I find the combined tree-styled view useful. Without it there is no other way to easily navigate to a specific chapter. With scrolling it's hard to pinpoint the correct place to stop and using the keyboard take a while to move, say, up 3 levels, then down 4 chapters. Using the tree view showing only chapters I can quickly click the applicable chapter and the styled view would scroll to that point. Since the tree view isn't supposed to be used for styled XML I suggest that it be made more usable as a outline of the document that can be quickly navigated. If chapters/sections/appendixes etc... were identified by their titles or ids instead of their element names it would be very useful. Also the tree should automatically expand in the right places. I would like the tree to always fill up the left pane (top to bottom) but not overflow. Within this constrant it should try to keep the 1st-level of elements displayed (chapters/parts in a book). Then expand the hierarcy up to the current element. By the last sentance I mean display all the siblings, parents, and parent's siblings of the current element. On a related note: When selecting an element in the tree view it is too easy to select a parent element. When clicking vertically between two siblings it should not select a parent but instead the closest sibling. There. That's a couple wishlist items for XXE that would enhance productivity. -- Devin Bayer - http://elektrono.com/contact -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20021018/fdcab6cf/attachment.sig
