Dear Hussain, Thank you very much for the links. I will investigate the methods at the earliest.
I would also like to point out what looks like a bug: If I use the set-attribute-button with an attribute that contains any uppercase letters, then the list does not appear. Kind Regards Swami Kevala On 6/25/07, Hussein Shafie <hussein at xmlmind.com> wrote: > > Swami Kevala wrote: > > > > I am using a custom schema for transcribed discourses for which I have > > defined an <onTopic> element which can contain one or more paragraphs. I > > am using this to mark up the places in my document where certain topics > > are discussed. This has a @keywords attribute, which is defined by the > > relax ng list pattern ( i.e. it is a list of space-delimited words that > > describe the topic) E.g.keywords="war death Iraq" > > > > I want to be able to define some kind of control on my styled view that > > will easily allow the user to add or remove keywords from the list. The > > 'list' control does do this - but I have around 300 keywords available, > > and I don't want a huge listbox appearing - I just prefer a combo box > > that would allow me to make multiple selections. (Would also be great if > > it could be sorted alphabetically) > > > > Does anybody know if this would be possible to accomplish this. I am > > currently evaluating the professional edition, and I need to know if > > I'll be able to do this. > > > > > I'd also like to know if there is any way to create a custom css > control using the java api which would retrieve the list of strings directly > from my relax schema, instead of having to duplicate them in the css > definition > > > --> Creating a custom control, embded in the styled view, that may be > used to add/remove keywords to/from an attribute is not difficult. See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/styleext.html#solution4 > > --> There is no way to get any information from your RELAX NG schema > because we don't have an API (public or private) for that. Grammars such > as DTD, W3C XML Schema and RELAX NG are treated as abstract validation > services. And you cannot ``query'' such validation services. See > > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmledit/doctype/DocumentType.html > > The idea is to automatically extract the list of possible keywords from > your schema and to make your custom control use this list. > > --> You can probably create something *usable* without having to develop > custom Java[tm] code. A command button and a macro should do the trick. > > See > > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/command-button.html > > See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/writing_macros.html > > See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/pick.html > > > > --- > PS: We cannot help you more if you decide to implement such custom > control (or even the command button and its macro). Such level of > support is reserved to Professional Edition customers. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20070625/f1110b6a/attachment.htm
