Philippe Nobili wrote: > > We extensively use the Helper Applications support in XMLMind to edit > external images (bitmaps, SVG). Is there a way to use XMLMind itself as > an "internal" helper to edit some external resources editable with XMLMind ? > > *Rationale:* Our documents are in DocBook-4 and may contain many > equations wrapped in mediaobject. The equation files themselves are in > MathML, so there they have been created within XMLMind at the time the > document was created. When we edit such documents, it would be very > convenient to use the same external helpers mechanism to open the MathML > file in a new tab in the running XMLMind, rather than remembering the > MathML file's name, clicking on Open... etc etc. > > PS: A workaround is to use a single instance of XMLMind and declare > XMLMind itself as an external helper, but this this is not very > practical in our case since the application is deployed using Java Web > Start, so we do not really know where it is installed. >
You are right. This feature, which is obviously needed, is missing. We'll implement it in next release.
