Awesome. Thanks so much!
Hussein Shafie wrote: > On 10/21/2010 07:25 PM, David Priest wrote: >> I could spend the day reading docs and figuring out how to do this, but >> I'm going to be lazy and ask here: >> >> Hussein, could you paste a snippet that places a button on the toolbar >> that generates an xml:id for the selected element? Most of the time I >> manually name the bits and pieces I need to reference elsewhere, but at >> the moment I'm cobbling together random paragraphs and really have no >> need for sensible-to-humans IDs. >> >> I could swear that XXE used to have this functionality. At the moment, >> I'm thinking I should fiddle with Mercurial to have it run a >> generate-id() transformation on check-in. It certainly wouldn't harm my >> documents if every. single. element. were to have an ID. > > Basically you need to invoke: > --- > <command name="addAttribute" > parameter="[implicitElement] [id] xml:id" /> > --- > > See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/addAttribute.html > > However here's something more comfortable to use: > --- > <binding> > <keyPressed code="F4" /> > <command name="addId" /> > </binding> > > <command name="addId"> > <macro> > <choice> > <sequence> > <command name="addAttribute" > parameter="[implicitElement] [id] xml:id" /> > <command name="selectNode" > parameter="self[implicitElement]" /> > > <get context="$selectedElement" expression="@xml:id" /> > <command name="status" parameter='xml:id="%_"' /> > </sequence> > > <sequence> > <get context="$implicitElement/@xml:id" expression="." /> > <command name="status" > parameter='Already has xml:id="%_". Will not change it.' /> > </sequence> > </choice> > </macro> > </command> > --- > > Copy attached customize.xxe to one of the two addon/ subdirectories > scanned by XXE during its startup and you are done. > > If you want a toolbar button rather than keyboard shortcut F4, then > you'll have to tell me which stock configuration you want to customize. > Is it DocBook 5? > > > --- > PS: XXE can automatically add an ID to newly inserted element. You need > to customize your configuration to do that. > > --- > <newElementContent generateIds="true" /> > --- > > See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/newElementContent.html > > -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
