Dear Hussein, >> Otherwise I will end up with thousands of attributes with predictable >> values >> in my document, which will needlessly make it a lot bigger. > > This is hard to understand for us, who are not professional > lexicographers. >
Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. Since language selection in XXE is *attribute-based* (and not *element-based*), the only way to implement spell-checking in my documents was to add language attributes. However, since the relationship between elements and language in an XML-encoded dictionary is normally one-to-one (e.g. headwords are always in, say, French, and translations in English), I wanted to avoid the necessity of specifying language attributes for all elements by defining default values in the DTD, so that instead of writing: <Entry> <Headword lang="fr">chien</Headword> <Translation lang="en">dog</Translation> </Entry> <Entry> <Headword lang="fr">chienne</Headword> <Translation lang="en">dog</Translation> <Translation lang="en">bitch</Translation> </Entry> I could simply write: <Entry> <Headword>chien</Headword> <Translation>dog</Translation> </Entry> <Entry> <Headword>chienne</Headword> <Translation>dog</Translation> <Translation>bitch</Translation> </Entry> and still be able to spell-check such a document. *** > In the case of CSS, this is supported because DITA specialization > depends on it. See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/use-default-attribute-values.html > That looks interesting. I overlooked this functionality when reading the documentation. Thank you! Does it work in CSS selectors only or is it possible to retrieve the value of a default attribute in a CSS stylesheet using the attr() function as well? *** Thanks for your great product and even better support! Best wishes, Mariusz
