Impressive macros! Thank you very much for trying to help.
Alain Pierrot wrote:
>
> Hi, I met the same kind of need, and devised the following work-around.
>
>>
>> The homegrown DTD I use includes a conditional filtering mechanism
>> similar
>> to (but a little more complex than) docbook "profiling". Since the
>> documents
>> I create make heavy use of this mechanism, they can sometimes get
>> difficult
>> to edit. In order to simplify editing, therefore, I can switch between
>> different "views" in which different sets of conditions are applied and
>> irrelevant information is hidden. The current view is determined by an
>> attribute of the document's root element. Ideally, changing this
>> attribute
>> would immediately change the view. This is not possible, however,
>> because
>> CSS selectors are not powerful enough. I currently get around this
>> limitation by running a "process" transformation that sets a "view"
>> attribute to "show" or "hide" on all conditionalized elements each
>> time the
>> "current-view" attribute is updated. This view attribute can then be
>> used by
>> XXE's CSS display mechanism to show/hide the correct elements. The view
>> attribute is only needed for display purposes; it has no real
>> function in
>> the DTD.
>>
> You are not stuck with a process transformation :
> XMLEditors commands can be used recursively to toggle (or create and
> set a value to) your "view" attribute.
> I use the same (inelegant but effective) way to show/hide features
> reflecting, through XPath selectors, the current status of the edited
> document.
> Here is a snippet of .xxe which might help you :
>
>
> <binding>
> <keyPressed code="F8" />
> <command name="toggleAllView" parameter="show"/>
> </binding>
>
> <binding>
> <keyPressed code="F8" modifiers="shift"/>
> <command name="toggleAllView" parameter="hide"/>
> </binding>
>
> <!-- selects all elements with attribute "view" -->
> <command name="toggleAllView">
> <macro trace="false">
> <sequence>
> <set variable="selectedElement" expression="//*...@view][1]"/>
> <command name="toggleView" parameter="%0"/>
> </sequence>
> </macro>
> </command>
>
> <command name="toggleView">
> <macro trace="false">
> <sequence>
> <choice>
> <sequence>
> <test expression="contains('%0','show')"/>
> <command name="setViewShow"/>
> </sequence>
> <sequence>
> <test expression="contains('%0','hide')"/>
> <command name="setViewHide"/>
> </sequence>
> </choice>
> <sequence>
> <pass>
> <test
> expression="$implicitElement/following::*...@view]"/>
> </pass>
> <set variable="selectedElement"
> expression="$implicitElement/ following::*...@view][1]"/>
> <command name="toggleView" parameter="%0"/>
> </sequence>
> </sequence>
> </macro>
> </command>
>
> <!-- Commands to be customized and called for "local toggling" or
> creating the attribute when implicit -->
> <command name="setViewShow">
> <macro trace="false">
> <sequence>
> <command name="putAttribute" parameter="view show"/>
> </sequence>
> </macro>
> </command>
>
> <command name="setViewHide">
> <macro trace="false">
> <sequence>
> <command name="putAttribute" parameter="view hide"/>
> </sequence>
> </macro>
> </command>
>
