Hussein Shafie wrote: > Boris Goldowsky wrote: > >> you'd have to create the new <level1> element, create >> the <h1> within it, move the content over piece by piece, >> > > Why piece by piece? Please use node range selection whenever possible. > See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/user/being_productive.html#node_range > Right, as long as there are no sub-levels, this could be one step.
> Yes, it is painstaking because unfortunately the DTBook grammar has > chosen the <level1>/<h1>, <level2>/<h2>, <level3>/<h3>, etc, design > instead of choosing the <section> with <title> and nested <section>s design. > Now that you mention it, DTBook actually allows both types of structure. So I am thinking what I might do is provide a command to convert the entire document to the simpler form with just <level> and <hd> - in which case this type of structural fixing would be much easier. Then you could convert back if desired. > We have written commands in Java[tm] for DocBook that do just this: > * Command "docb.demote" > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmleditext/docbook/Demote.html > * Command "docb.promote" > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmleditext/docbook/Promote.html > We can send you the source code of these commands if you are interested. > I would be interested to see what that looks like. > It is also possible to write an XSLT transformation and use it in a > process command (possibly itself invoked by a macro-command). > * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/process.html > * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/macro.html > I can see how to invoke an XSLT on the document and put the result in a file, but is there a way to slurp the result back into the document being edited? Bng -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20081031/1118b79c/attachment.htm
