On 01/03/2012 03:37 PM, Philippe Nobili wrote: > > We usually author complex DocBook-4 documents, usually books with many > chapters, using XXE. The new "document set" features added since XXE 5.0 > are really great and make our authors life a lot easier, especially for > big documents. > > Below a very simple suggestion for improvement related to these features. > > + Description: > > Gives access to the XML-dialect related "XML" menu (e.g. "DocBook"), > depending on the document set type, when the mouse is in the "document > set" panel. > > + Rationale: > > Most of the time the "document set" itself is an XML document type with > XXE support -- e.g. in our case, a DocBook-4 "book" document --; it > would be very convenient to have access to the related XML menu (e.g. > "Convert to PDF" in the case of DocBook-4 ) without having to open the > book explicitly in a new tab since the book itself is of no use and > simply contains pointers to chapters. > > Please just drop the suggestion if it does not make sense. > Best regards, >
First of all, thank you for your feedback. Your suggestion certainly makes sense. However this feature is truly useful only when you very often need to convert the master XML document to other formats while you are editing parts of this document (for example, to check that everything looks good in print and/or to check olinks[*]). We don't think that this need is a common one and in order to keep XXE as lean and mean as possible, we try to very carefully select the features, whether major or minor, we add to our XML editor. Therefore, we are sorry but we have to reject your request for enhancement. --- [*] When a document set is opened, the link and xref elements are automatically checked against all the members of the set, and not just against the file being edited. See tutorial: "Working with a document set" -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/document_set/index.html -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
