Fr?d?ric Boone wrote: > Thanks a lot for your reply. Indeed the form-sampler.xml looks really > great! that's exactly what I'd like to have for my xml files. > > I looked at the example files carefully and tried to do the same for > my files but I find it not very straightforward, even with the > documentation. > I am a bit disapointed by the fact the css must be very specific an it > can not be generic. For example it looks like it's not possible to ask > for a combobox each time there is a restriction type with enumeration > or is it? > > The xxe configuration files look even more obscur to me and it's hard > for me to figure out what should go into the configuration file and > what should go into the css. > > A final question: are there simple default css files and/or config > files that would work for any schema in ordre to have a not too bad > styled view. I tried starting with an empty css and empty xxe file but > the result is very ugly. >
--> Writing a configuration file is not strictly needed. For example: form-sampler.xml starts with: --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="form-sampler/form-sampler.css" title="Stylesheet using combo-box(), check-box(), text-field(), etc" ?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="form-sampler/form-sampler2.css" alternate="yes" title="Stylesheet exclusively using value-editor()" ?> <doc xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/form-sampler form-sampler/form-sampler.xsd" xmlns="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/form-sampler"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:ns="http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/schema/form-sampler";> ... --- --> Writing a good CSS may take a while, depending on the size of your schema. For example, it took 10 days to write the CSS for DocBook. Note that this is not specific to XMLmind XML Editor. --> Please open form-sampler.xml one more time and this time, use the "View" menu to switch from CSS called "Stylesheet using combo-box(), etc" to CSS called "Stylesheet exclusively using value-editor()". No much differences at first sight. But if you look at the source of form-sampler/form-sampler2.css using a text editor, you'll find this CSS very very simple compared to form-sampler/form-sampler.css: --- double1, float1, long1, int1, short1, byte1, day1, monthDay1, month1, yearMonth1, year1, dateTime1, time1, date1, cymklista, cymka, cymklist1, cymk1, string1, uri1, integer1, rgb1, disabled, onoff { content: value-editor(attribute, value); } --- See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/value-editor.html --> We also have a ready-to-use CSS (leveraging value-editor()) which is totally generic and which may be used to style *any* strongly typed XML data. You'll find it in: XXE_install_dir/addon/config/common/css/xmldata.css
