Hi, we have encountered a rather strange behaviour of XXE in the Tree view display.
We normally work in the Styled view defined by a configuration of our own, which is derived from XXE's DocBook configuration. But sometimes we need to switch to the Tree view, especially when editing "tiny little" XML structures. My observation is that in Tree view, the text nodes within specific element types are displayed in a different, Courier-like font. Some (but not all) of the elements affected are specific to our configuration, i.e. they are not part of the DocBook elements and hence are unknown in XXE's stock configuration for DocBook. (This might explain why I could not reproduce the behaviour with a DocBook document.) Why is the font change relevant? Because with XXE 4.8.0 under Windows (not so under Linux), certain characters actually "disappear" when displayed in the Courier-like font! This means, it is impossible to select them or to put the cursor at them, in Tree view only. So far this has occurred for one character: U+2009 THIN SPACE. This is rather troubling because if narrow spacing characters like U+2009 are already hard to see (and to select) in Styled view, it is really confusing when you wonder if they are completely gone, after having switched to Tree view. Now, to solve the problem, I think it should be sufficient to prevent the font change that occurs (in my case) for non-DocBook elements, because I suspect that U+2009 is simply dropped somehow in that monospace font. Any hints on how to do this? I am willing to set up a test case, but would prefer to know before on what aspects I should focus. Yves -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
