Hi all,
I've created a larger document in XXE and after I got some
experiences with it I've some suggestions for future version
of XXE. It would be really nice if it can show "split-view"
where one half is XML formated according to CSS or no CSS in
tree view and the other half contains XML as text with all
the modifications and movements around synchronized in the
two windows. This is because you always have some modifications
that are done easier in the source XML and it would be very
nice if you don't have to switch between two editors.
Furthermore you have advantage of better navigation through
the source and easier marking of block as you can mark it
in CSS view and it remains marked when you change focus into
the other window.
(If you have ever seen Macromedia Dreamwaver 4 (or higher) you
probably know what I'm talking about.)
Second suggestion is because of the following situation:
you have some text inside - say - <p> element.
<p>this is the <a>link</a> text.</p>
When you copy "this is the <a>link</a> text." in XXE
and paste it somewhere inside other <p> element, you
loose <a> element.
Third suggestion follows from this situation (it might
be just due to my ignorance):
<p>
<ul>
<li>text1</li>
<li>text2</li>
</ul>
</p>
I'm having my cursor positioned at the end of the "text2"
word and I would really like to get out of <ul> environment
and continue in <p> environment. There are two ways how
to accomplish it:
1) when created such a <p> element with <ul> element inside
you have greyed out box where you can contiunue with <p>.
When reloading the same document into XXE the greyed box
is not there any more
2) create other <p> element after current element and then
merge the two together
I think it would be nice to have some command like "step out
of current element and continue with writing in element one
level above".
Cheers,
Petr
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Petr Holub
CESNET z.s.p.o. Supercomputing Center Brno
Zikova 4 Institute of Compt. Science
160 00 Praha 6, CZ Masaryk University
Czech Republic Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, CZ
e-mail: Petr.Holub at cesnet.cz phone: +420-5-41512213
e-mail: hopet at ics.muni.cz
