Magnus G?fvert wrote: > > I have a docbook book document where I want to move chapters into > separate chapter files for inclusion. It works fine to write a chapter > file from scratch, but I cannot figure out how to move a chapter from > the book document and to the chapter file. When I select a chapter in > the book I cannot cut it to the clipboard. Copy seems to work, but I > cannot paste it in the new chapter document. Any suggestions? >
It works like everything else in XMLmind XML Editor. The only trick you need to know is: you cannot replace the root element of a document; however you can replace all its children using a single paste command. [1] Select chapter A in the master document M.xml. [2] "Esc Down_Arrow" to select all the children of chapter A. [3] Ctrl-C to copy all the selected nodes to the clipboard. [4] Create a new chapter document. Switch to this new chapter document. Let's call it C.xml. [5] Select the empty chapter which is the root of C.xml. [6] "Esc Down_Arrow" to select all the children of the empty chapter. [7] Ctrl-V to replace these children by the contents of chapter A (used here the above trick). [8] Save the new chapter file as C.xml. [9] Select the chapter root element of C.xml. [10] Ctrl+Shift-C to copy a reference to this chapter. [11] Switch to master document M.xml. [12] Make sure that chapter A is selected. [13] Ctrl-V to replace chapter A by a reference to the chapter root element of C.xml. We consider that this operation is seldom needed, otherwise we would have implemented a specific command to perform it.
