Hi Hussein, Thanks for the quick reply (as always).
Yes, we admit the way we use XXE in this project is quite unusual or atypical. It's a data-migration project with very atypical requirements. Maybe your info about the way the textarea works gives us enough to work with. I'll pass it on to the developer. Regards, --Marc iCtrl | M. van Grootel | Gutenbergweg 1 | 4104 BA Culemborg T: +31 (0)345 62 01 99 | M: +31 (0)6 20 41 26 66 | F: +31 (0)345 51 08 67-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Hussein Shafie [mailto:hussein at xmlmind.com] Verzonden: Monday, December 14, 2009 1:18 PM Aan: Marc van Grootel CC: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Onderwerp: Re: [XXE] Problems with textareas Marc van Grootel wrote: > > We have supplied XMLMind with a CSS stylesheet that renders most XML > elements as text boxes. This is quite unusual. This defeats the whole purpose of using XMLmind XML Editor. > One of our developers found out that, inside > text boxes, many standard XMLMind functionalities behave in an > unexpected way. These are his findings: > > * The text in the text boxes seems not to be consistent with the > content of the underlying XML element. For instance, we found out that > the XPath function string-length(.) returns an incorrect number (the > number of characters before modification of the content of the text > box). The number that is returned becomes correct as soon as the text > box looses focus and is selected again. > > * A text selection inside a text box is not recognized (as can be > inferred from the contents of the $selectedChars variable). This causes > the command convertCase not to work. > > * Key bindings do not work inside text fields. Outside text > fields, or in a different view (CSS), they do work. > > * Context menus (right clicking) do not work inside text fields. > As with key bindings, right clicking works well. > > Before attempting a different configuration of XMLMind, we would like to > be informed if these issues are known to you and, if so, how we can work > around them or if there are updates planned that affect/change these > behaviours. XMLmind XML Editor has no known issues (which are our fault and thus, which could be fixed by us) whatsoever. > > If you need as to provide sample material to reproduce our findings, > please let us know. > The behavior you describe is absolutely normal because the textarea control is just a *foreign* *text* *editor* embedded in the styled document view. As such, this textarea control has its own key bindings, its own selection and possibly its own right click menu. The only interactions between such foreign text editor and XMLmind XML Editor are: * The textarea control is created and destroyed along with the element it represents. * The textarea control read and writes its data from/to XMLmind XML Editor. * The textarea control is forced to write its data to XMLmind XML Editor when the editing context changes and also just before the document is validated or saved. (This explains your string-length(.) issue.) You need to change your CSS stylesheet in order to render your XML elements using display:block; and *no* *replaced* *content* (that is, render your XML elements normally), instead of using something like content:text-area(columns,40,rows,5,wrap,word); Reference: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/text-area.html Handelsregister KvK Rivierenland 11063591 | Chamber of Commerce Rivierenland 11063591 Let op : Dit e-mailbericht is slechts bestemd voor de persoon of organisatie aan wie het is gericht. Het bericht kan informatie bevatten die persoonlijk of vertrouwelijk is. Voor het geval de ontvanger van dit bericht niet de bedoelde persoon of organisatie is, wordt hierbij vermeld, dat verdere verspreiding, openbaarmaking of vermenigvuldiging van dit bericht strikt verboden is en verzoeken wij u de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender direct per mail/fax te informeren. Dank voor uw medewerking. Important Notice: This E-mail is confidential, may be legally privileged and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and be kind enough to e-mail confirmation to sender.
