R. Lozano wrote: > > We have started to edit documents with references to others documents, > and when we open this kind of documents we get this message:
You can disable this kind of alert. Just check the "Do not show this dialog box again" checkbox. > > We have edited referenced documents by using the “Edit Referenced > Document” but we think it will be difficult for our users to edit > references in this way because they won’t know that the document which > they are currently editing is a composed document using references to > other documents. This is one important feature of our project. I think that your users are not yet used to the way XMLmind XML Editor works. Document references (more precisely references to the root element of a document) [1] have a blue/gray background, [2] are not editable, [3] the node path bar is itself partially blue/gray in the parts which are read-only. Moreover, the View menu has a menu item corresponding to a special CSS stylesheet called "Show info about included elements", which makes this even clearer. Therefore, it's pretty obvious to see that the document being edited is modular and contains references to other documents. > > Is there any user transparent way for editing references in the same > main document editor window? No, and we don't plan to implement this feature in the near future. We have adopted this approach because: [1] It is simple to implement and simple to understand. [3] It is file-lock friendly. [2] Several authors can work at the same time on different parts of the same modular document, while, in itself, the overall modular document is still editable (e.g. you can suppress or add a chapter from/to a modular book, while another author is working on this chapter). --- PS: I sincerely hope that your users have followed a tutorial of some sort; otherwise they may quickly reject XMLmind XML Editor. Recommended tutorial: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/modular_doc/index.html See also "Working with a document set" -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/document_set/index.html -- which is a very comfortable way to work with modular documents. -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
