Thank you for the explanation Hussein. It turns out I had omitted a required attribute elsewhere in the template, and that invalidity apparently caused it not to add the text nodes where expected. Once I fixed the attribute problem, things are working well again.
Boris On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 10:27 +0100, Hussein Shafie wrote: > Boris Goldowsky wrote: > > If I have an elementTemplate in my config file that introduces an > > element, say a paragraph, is there a way to force creation of a text > > node in that paragraph so that users can simply click on it and start > > typing? I don't know exactly why, but in some cases my templates seem > > to get text nodes, and sometimes they do not. > > > > --> It's the schema which is used to decide whether a text node is > needed or not. > > If a descendant element D, contained in your element template T, is > empty and element D has mixed or data content, then an empty text node > is automatically inserted in D. > > Your element template T needs to be structurally valid for this to work. > > Example: Create a new DocBook 4 book and replace the chapter by a part. > > Notice how the following template is inserted with all the needed text > nodes. Also notice how the whitespace used to indent the elements is > automatically removed. > > --- > <elementTemplate name="chapter" selectable="override"> > <part xmlns=""> > <title></title> > <chapter> > <title></title> > <section> > <title></title> > <para></para> > </section> > </chapter> > </part> > </elementTemplate> > --- > > > > --> If you want to force the creation of a text node, then you need to > add some text to your element template: > > Example: instead of this: > --- > <elementTemplate name="glossdef" selectable="override"> > <glossentry xmlns=""> > <glossterm></glossterm> > <glossdef> > <para></para> > </glossdef> > </glossentry> > </elementTemplate> > --- > > use this: > --- > <elementTemplate name="glossdef" selectable="override"> > <glossentry xmlns=""> > <glossterm>TERM HERE</glossterm> > <glossdef> > <para>DEFINITION HERE</para> > </glossdef> > </glossentry> > </elementTemplate> > --- > >
