Monday, March 2, 2009, 9:51:32 PM, Clark Karr wrote: > Thank you, but it still doesn't work. > > How do I request string substitution be supported within XXE and the > document conversion add-ons (I'm only interested in pdf)? > > I support approximately 60 software developers using XXE to write a variety > of modular documents (we have 70 XXE licenses). > > XXE provides an easy to learn and use editor and, so far, does everything we > need except string substitution. We produce different versions of documents > where the only differences are the names of several items. Right now, we're > doing the substitution manually.
Sounds like a typical document-template scenario. So maybe you should use stuff like <span role="subst">customerName</span>, customize the XXE CSS so these are displayed properly when editing, and then add an extra step in the tool-chain (like an XSLT transformation) that substitutes those values. > It would certainly help us and perhaps other XXE users if string > substitution were supported. > > Thanks again. > clark -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
