Marc van Grootel wrote: > > We encountered something that seemed counterintuitive for us and we would > like to know what would be the best approach to resolve it.
"???" is here on purpose to *force* the user to specify an actual value. Systematically choosing the default attribute value may be a very bad idea for some applications (but probably not yours). > > We have a CSS stylesheet that imports xmldata.css > (xxe-config:common/css/xmldata.css). In that CSS the add-attribute-button is > used to easily insert an attribute (using the + icon). This inserts the > attribute using "???" as the value. In our case we have a DTD that uses a > default attribute value. What we would like to achieve is that when an > attribute is inserted that it uses this default value as the default > selection for the dropdown or radio buttons. You shouldn't take xmldata.css too seriously. This CSS stylesheet is primarily meant to be used in prototypes and demos. > > For example: > > We have an attribute checktype with the following definition: > > checktype (checkbox | textbox) "checkbox" > > In our xmldata based view we can then add the checktype attribute and this > will show radio buttons for "checkbox" and "textbox". However it shows > "checkbox" selected (as if this is the current value) but the attribute > inspector shows the value "???". This confuses the authors that do not look > at the attribute inspector and they conclude, based on what they see in the > view, that "checkbox" is selected as the value. > > Is there any generic way that we could add such an attribute with a default > value equal to the DTD default value? > > We could start overriding all the places that need this behaviour but would > like to know if there is a better and generic solution for it. > There is currently no way to tell add-attribute-button() to use the default attribute value, if any. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/add-attribute-button.html *If* you are interested and *if* you can wait for next release (~February 2010), we can add such option to add-attribute-button(). If this is implemented, you'll have to slightly modify xmldata.css: --- ... " ", convert-button(tool-tip, "Convert"), " ", delete-button(tool-tip, "Delete"), " ", add-attribute-button( check-has-attributes, yes, use-default-attribute-value, yes, color, navy, tool-tip, "Add Attribute")), ... --- Please confirm that you are interested, otherwise we'll not add this option to add-attribute-button().
