Hussein Shafie wrote: > 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). > We consider that this operation is seldom needed, otherwise we would > have implemented a specific command to perform it. > Dear Mr. Hussein,
Just for your information, we perform this operation very frequently. It's a common situation in our case not to know in advance which parts (sections/chapters/...) of a document will eventually be shared. Another similar thing we often do (we use the same procedure) is turning chapters into sections and conversely, appendix into chapters, etc.... The rationale is the same (== not knowing in advance how documents parts will be organized and shared among documents). For all these cases, the copy and paste of children works fine, but this is not always easy to guess...; specific commands might be useful. Thank you for your excellent product, Philippe. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: philippe_nobili.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 349 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20091201/6c0951bd/attachment.bin
