On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 12:36 +0100, Hussein Shafie wrote: > On 12/14/2012 09:48 AM, Philippe Nobili wrote: > > > > Below, 3 short questions > > Short but difficult.
Many thanks for your reply, it was very helpful. > > Or command pick (supports auto-completion): > > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/pick.html > > > > * Then, command xpathSearch: > > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/xpathSearch.html > > > > > > This was very straightforward to write & test in the GUI indeed; sorry to come back to you however... we have implemented the global search for element (based on one particular attribute value). Everything seems to be correct; excerpt of the macro trace below: (starting from the value returned from "pick"): <--search.parameter:command: execution result='nx' -->search.parameter:command: checking... xpathSearch "//*[@Name = 'nx']" <--search.parameter:command: CANNOT EXECUTE But the last Xpath search fails, although it seems to be a perfectly valid search (i.e. searching for all element whose @Name attribute is equals to 'nx'). The same Xpath expression ("/*[@Name = 'nx']") entered as-is in the Avanced Tab of the element search dialog works fine. Many thanks for your help, Best regards. > > > > > related to XXE styling & customization (5.4.1); > > many thanks for your advices. > > Best regards. > > Philippe. > > > > 1. We have designed a small XXE-addon to edit one of our XML dialects; > > in our dialect, all elements are identified by their @Name attribute. > > > > We want to provide our authors (software developers in this case) a fast > > an convenient way to search for a given element by its name. We know > > about the attribute search tools, but it too generic and not > > straightforward to use (one has to "XML-aware", know about the attribute > > name, etc etc. The tool is closed after each search). > > > > So we plan to develop a *tailored search feature *easily accessible from > > the GUI when editing files of this dialect; this feature would naturally > > call the xpathSearch (e.g. //*[@Name = something) behind the scene. > > > > Is is possible to add such a tool with a simple customization of the XXE > > toolbar, > > Yes. Add a <button> child to the <toolBar> element of your XXE > configuration file. See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/toolBar.html > > This button would invoke a macro. This macro would call: > > * Command prompt: > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/prompt.html > > Or command pick (supports auto-completion): > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/pick.html > > * Then, command xpathSearch: > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/xpathSearch.html > > > > > > or do we have to write Java code and a XXE GUI customization ? > > (we would like to avoid if at all possible). > > Not necessarily. A well-written interactive macro should be able to do > the trick. > > > > > > > > 2. We have two different views for editing the content of our files, > > depending on the presence of some elements within the file, it's better > > to use one or another. Is there a way to automatic select the default > > views depending on the file's content ? > > Yes, but you'll have to write an OpenedDocumentHook in Java for that: > > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmleditapp/kit/OpenedDocumentHook.html > > The OpenedDocumentHook is registered with XXE by the means of a > customize.xxe_gui file. See: > > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/gui/openedDocumentHook.html > > > > > > (something similar to the detect > > mechanism for triggering the add-ons). > > No because the feature you describe is rarely needed. > > > > > > > > 3. The last one is related to CSS-styling; in our graph-view, element > > names are rendered using text fields in a hierarchical graph view; below > > a short screen capture to help you visualize: > > > > > > > > We would like to make those text-field thin and and discrete in this > > view, at least avoiding having a different background color for them. > > The following: > > > > text-field(attribute,"Name",background-color,transparent) > > > > Does not seem to work (specifying another background-color works OK, but > > changes the color for all text fields in the view even those used in > > different elements...). > > This is clearly a bug. > > > > > > Is there a way to assign a transparent > > background color to text fields ? > > > > "background-color,transparent" or at least, "background-color,inherit", > should work. That makes 2 bugs. > > > > > > > > -- > XMLmind XML Editor Support List > [email protected] > http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support >
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