Thank you for your answer. Fortunately I am not in a hurry nor is this feature critical for my work. I just felt it would ease some things which are probably very specific from case to case. To be more specific - I use DocBook more in a way as DITA is intended to be used. So I create many topics on a section level which can be reused across one or more projects. This is convenient as we usually create standalone docs for more user roles. That is why this feature would be nice to have. On the other hand if we used DocBook in a traditional, more linear and narative fashion, I guess there would probably not be such a need. Pavel ?kop?k
-----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 4:49 PM To: Skopik Pavel Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] file explorer within XXE Skopik Pavel wrote: > > I have a question regarding a XXE feature - do you plan to implement or > consider to implement a file explorer within XXE which could be used to > browse and open xml files located on user's hard drive etc.? I began to > think of this when composing modular documents consisting of many small > files. This is a very peculiar need. XXE is more designed to work with a large number of inclusions coming from a relatively small number of source files. (That's why we have developed the Include tool http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/includePane.html.) > When working with these files and including them in the master > file, I have to switch between file manager and XXE to open such file, > then copy this file as reference, switch to the tab with the master file > and paste reference. With really many files it a little bit uncomfortable. > > I think that a file manager (e.g. displayed in a way as for example > element or attribute or pane or include tool is) would further enhance > XXE usage. Such a file explorer could be for example used for this: > > -open particular folder and open one or more selected files > > -drag image files to XXE without having to swith between XXE and a file > mananger > > -select a file, copy it as a reference and paste it into opened document > Anyway the answer is: yes, developing such file manager is planned. But such file manager would be just a byproduct of a much larger, pretty ambitious, project. We do not expect to work on it in the short term. Note that if you are in a hurry, you may want to develop such file manager yourself. See XMLmind XML Editor - Customizing the User Interface http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/gui/index.html See XMLmind XML Editor - Developer's Guide, Extending the GUI of XMLmind XML Editor http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/gui.html
