Ahhhh. That makes a bunch of other things make sense. Thanks.
----- Original Message ---- > From: Hussein Shafie <hussein at xmlmind.com> > To: Jeff Hooker <jeff at itwriting.ca> > Cc: "xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com" <xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:49:55 PM > Subject: Re: [XXE] Daisy-chaining macro commands > > Jeff Hooker wrote: > > > > The following macro calls a custom macro command that hides all of the > > content > applying to the xpath contained in the parameter. It works fine when I > trigger > the commands one at at time from the command dialog box, and they work fine > when > I trigger them one at a time from their own menu items, but when I attempt to > string them together into one command like so: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > the first one fires and then all the following commands fail. I should add > that I don't do anything regarding changing the cursor or screen focus > between > commands when I'm testing, and the first step of the pmc.hideall command is > the > following macro-command designed to return the focus to the document's root > element so that the next command can fire: > > > >? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >? > > Once again, the pmc.selectNode command works when I run it from the command > dialog, but it fails when I run it from a command that has a bunch of > commands > in sequence. > > --> Add trace="true" to your pmc.selectNode macro and you'll see that in > fact, it always fails. A few steps work, eventually selecting the root > element, but after that the overall macro fails. > > And when the first pmc.selectNode fails inside pmc.hideallconditional, > the rest of the sequence is not evaluated (which is normal). > > See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/macro_reference.html > > --> Selecting the root element is done like this: > > > > > > > > > > See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/xpath_vars.html > > --> And what about? > > > parameter="//*...@arch]|//*...@document]|//*...@review_status]|//*...@audience]"/> > > That is, do you really need pmc.hideallconditional?
