Philippe Nobili wrote:
> On 10/05/2010 07:22 PM, Hussein Shafie wrote:
>> On 10/05/2010 06:52 PM, Philippe Nobili wrote:
>>> Dear M. Shafie,
>>>
>>> In our XMLMind configuration, we use<elementTemplate> element to change
>>> some of the templates for elements in our XML schema. When we add
>>> insert-after(),... buttons, we see the following:
>>>
>>> + When we do not use the @selectable attribute, the new template item is
>>> displayed in the menu in addition to the standard element, for instance
>>> for our element, which is<menu>: menu(menu). This is in line with what
>>> is in the documentation... but we do not want to see the duplicate
>>> items: menu and menu(menu)
>>>
>>> + When we set @selectable to "override", we expected to see only one
>>> menu item in the generated pulldown; it is effectively what happens, but
>>> then our template is not executed and the default element is generated
>>> instead.
>> --> This probably happens because inserting the content of your
>> elementTemplate would cause the document to become invalid.
> Dear M. Shafie,
>
> Yes, this is exactly what happens.
>
> But in this case this is unfortunate since the invalidity is due to
> mandatory attributes (which then receive the default value '???' when
> the elements are created).
>
> So the result is as invalid as if the default template were used, no
> more. The same would happen if you create an <xref> in DocBook document:
> the document becomes invalid until you specify the @linkend attribute...
>
> Is there a workaround ?
Yes, see below.
> (needless to say, we cannot suggest default
> values for the mandatory attributes or we would have done this...).
>
No, but you nevertheless need to specify placeholder values for all the
required attributes.
DocBook 4 example: "xref" has a "linkend" required attribute.
What follows [A] works as expected:
---
<elementTemplate name="simple" selectable="override">
<xref xmlns="" linkend="???" role="TEST" />
</elementTemplate>
---
While this [B] may be used to reproduce the behavior you describe:
---
<elementTemplate name="simple" selectable="override">
<xref xmlns="" role="TEST" />
</elementTemplate>
---
[B] is *structurally*-invalid and hence ignored.
[A] is structurally-valid but data-type-invalid, which is still OK.
We'll document all these subtleties in next release.
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