Thank you for your reply! Problem solved. Nikos
2010/9/11 Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> > On 09/11/2010 08:38 AM, Nikolaos Paraschou wrote: > > > > I have a question about table editing in the XMLEditor. I created a > > Docbook v5+ book and somewhere inside it I added a table. What I want to > > do is add itemized lists and figures inside some cells of this table. > > Unfortunately I can't. > > > > Then I created a Docbook (not v5+) book and added a table there. In that > > table i can add itemized lists and figures inside the cells. > > > > Why is it not possible to add itemized lists and figures inside the > > cells of Docbook v5+ tables? Is there anything i am missing? > > No you are not missing anything and your question is indeed a very good > one. > > Let's say that the DocBook v5 schema is not always XMLmind XML editor > friendly which, in some cases, makes our product pretty hard to use. > > With DocBook v5 (not with DocBook v4), an entry element, that is, a > table cell, can contain either: > > * plain text and inline elements such as emphasis, link, etc. > > OR > > * block elements such as para, itemizedlist, figure, etc. > > (DocBook v4 allowed to mix both kinds of contents.) > > Therefore, > > * If the entry element is empty, explicitly select its empty text node > by clicking on #text in the node path bar (or pressing Ctrl-Up Arrow) > and use the Edit tool to *replace* it by a para, itemizedlist, figure, etc. > > * If the entry element is not empty, select all contents by dragging > your mouse over it and use the Edit tool to *convert* it to a para. > > After doing that, this entry, which now has switched to block contents, > will behave as you expect. > > > > > > > I am completely new to Docbook and XMLEditor (which is a very good > > product). I would appreciate any help. > > > > Then > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/user/tutorial_basics.html > is really a must read. > > >
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