I would second Devin Bayer's comments. What would be really nice would to be able to create a customized tree view that just showed certain nodes (i.e, section titles). I have made myself a secondary CSS file that just shows (indented) section titles, and I use it as a navigation aid, but of course it isn't collapsible like the tree view. I find the tree view, on the other hand, too detailed.
Another issue is that in Windows, at least, the expand/collapse symbols (+/-) are rather difficult to select - I think this is because the cursor is displayed as a caret mark rather than as an arrow. Minor points really - XXE is mostly excellent! -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18. oktober 2002 17:49 To: Devin Bayer Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: Using The Tree View Devin Bayer wrote: > > > 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. Thanks for your suggestions. May be the reason why we don't need to use the tree view here at XMLmind is that we don't edit large documents. -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
