Dear XMLmind team, I am trying to persuade my organization to use XXE for DocBook documentation editing. I think one critical necessary feature would be to allow the user to copy and paste tables from other documents into DocBook with a single command.
There already is a wish on the list: "XXE lacks a command that makes it easy copying and pasting several cells/rows at a time from Microsoft Excel." I think if you consider that pasting an Excel table into a text editor like Notepad results in TAB separated values, you can come fairly close to fulfilling this request if you implement a "Paste TSV into new table" command in XXE. It would do this: Create a new table. Take the text from the clipboard and process it line by line, creating a new table row for each line. Separate each line of clipboard text into cell values at TAB characters. As I am not a Java programmer, and not familiar with XXE-s internal representation of the XML tree, I cannot provide a "patch" but it should not be difficult for an XMLmind developer. Thanks for considering my suggestion, which would surely be welcomed by many of your existing and potential customers of this otherwise great product. Best regards Marton Kadar -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
