Skopik Pavel wrote: > Hello, > > > > I like the link tool and use it quite a lot. I would like to suggest a > few possible enhancements. I will demonstrate them on DocBook and on the > way I use it. Of course I understand this may rather be subjective and > may not apply generally. > > > > *Allow to select default link type. > > For now the link element is automatically selected. However in 90% of > cases I rather use the xref element. As our documentation is created and > managed usually on the section level I have to choose the link type for > each document opened. This suggestion also comes from the general > assumption that authors usually use uniform linkage style. So they for > example use the xref element more often then the link or olink elements. > This might also apply in case I want to create lots of olinks at once. > So I set default link type and thus omit choosing the link type > explicity for each document opened. >
This feature request is certainly a reasonable one. > > *Allow to implicitly offer id values from referenced document if it is > opened in XXE. > > Let‘s suppose I have two files opened in XXE: book.xml and chapter.xml. > chapter.xml is included in the book.xml. In the chapter.xml file I want > to create a link pointing to an id in the book.xml file. First I have to > add the book.xml as the link context. It would be great if ids from the > referenced document which is opened in XXE could be retrieved > automatically without having to specify the file as the link context. > I'm sorry but on the short term, we do not plan to make the Link tool smarter than it is. This means: * It will not try to guess what is the best link context for the document being edited. * It will not try to automatically refresh the selected link context. -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
