Thank you to all who responded to my query.
David's example with xrefstyle is close to what I want to be able to do. I
define the vendor attribute as follows
<define name="db.vendor.attribute">
<attribute name="vendor">
<a:documentation>Indicates the level of user experience for which the
element applies</a:documentation>
<choice>
<value type="token">Windows</value>
<value type="token">Linux</value>
<value type="token">Mac</value>
<value type="token">iOS</value>
<value type="token">Blackberry</value>
</choice>
</attribute>
</define>
Then in my XML file, I set the vendor attribute to two values (separating
them with a semi-colon)
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; version="5.0"
xml:id="da-dboptions" remap="concept" vendor="Blackberry;Mac">
But, I keep getting the following error in my authoring tool (I'm using
oXygen)
SystemID: C:\src\db\pubs\dbAdmin\da-dboptions2.xml
Engine name: Jing
Severity: error
Description: value of attribute "vendor" is invalid; must be equal to
"Windows", "Linux", "Mac", "iOs" or "Blackberry"
Start location: 13:23
End location: 13:34
Is there something that I need to set in the RNG file so that it knows
that the vendor attribute can have more than one value?
Thanks,
Kate
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"Cramer, David W (David)" <dcra...@motive.com>
02/02/2011 11:06 AM
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RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
Ah, perfect for my case and so simple. All I have to do (using RelaxNG and
Oxygen) is:
<define name="db.xrefstyle.attribute">
<attribute
name="xrefstyle">
<a:documentation>Specifies a keyword or keywords identifying additional
style information</a:documentation>
<choice>
<value type="token">select: nopage</value>
<value type="token">select: label nopage</value>
<value type="token">select: linktext</value>
<text/>
</choice>
</attribute>
</define>
Not sure about Kate?s case :-)
Thanks,
David
From: rob.cavicc...@emc.com [mailto:rob.cavicc...@emc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 9:17 AM
To: Cramer, David W (David); b...@sagehill.net;
docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; kate.wri...@sybase.com
Subject: RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
As you say, I think it is editor customization, and that depends on the
editor.
In Arbortext Editor, you can get what amounts to a combobox, with free
form text entry in addition to a list of common choices. You do this by
defining an attribute value space to be the union of an enumeration (list
of specific items) and a text pattern that defines exactly what you can
type. For example:
<xs:simpleType name="vendor">
<xs:union>
<!-- TYPICAL VALUES TO CHOOSE FROM -->
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restriction
base="xs:string">
<xs:enumeration value="linux" />
<xs:enumeration value="mac" />
<xs:enumeration value="windows" />
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
<!-- STRING PATTERN IF TYPED MANUALLY
-->
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restriction
base="xs:string">
<xs:pattern
value="(linux|mac|windows)((;(linux|mac|windows))*)?" />
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:union>
</xs:simpleType>
I don't know if other editors would handle this in a similar way.
From: Cramer, David W (David) [mailto:dcra...@motive.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:58 AM
To: Bob Stayton; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; kate.wri...@sybase.com
Subject: RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
As soon as I hit send, I woke up a little and realized that what you
really want is a dialog box in the editor (launched by a button or
whatever) that lets the writer click one or more checkboxes for each
value, then when they click ok, it turns the selected values into a comma
delimited list as the attribute value. For my xrefstyle case, I?d use
radio buttons instead of check boxes. The user is still free to edit the
attribute value manually. You could also customize the xslts to check the
list of values to make sure nothing unsupported was entered.
David
From: Cramer, David W (David) [mailto:dcra...@motive.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 6:43 AM
To: Bob Stayton; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; kate.wri...@sybase.com
Subject: RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
Hi Kate,
As Bob says, the DocBook xsl?s profiling mechanism supports this, but I
take your question to be about the authoring side of the problem. What you
really want to know is if there?s a way to help the writer avoid doing
something like vendor=?Windows XP, Linix? (where ?Linix? is misspelled and
so won?t have the desired effect). That seems to me a matter of editor
customization. In fact, this is on my list of things to look into wrt the
xrefstyle attribute. In that case, I would like to offer the writer a list
of typical choices but still leave them free to enter arbitrary text so I
don? t have to enumerate every possibility in the schema. I haven?t
figured out what to do yet, so please let me know if you come up with a
situation. You might also ask your editor?s support folks to see if they
have suggestions.
David
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:02 PM
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; kate.wri...@sybase.com
Subject: Re: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
Yes, you can do this. See the third bullet item in this reference:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MultiProfile.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
b...@sagehill.net
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From: kate.wri...@sybase.com
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:43 PM
Subject: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
Hello,
Is there a way to define an attribute so that the writer can select more
than one choice for its value (i.e., can an attribute be set to a
delimited list of values)?
For example: vendor= "Windows XP, Windows 2008, Linux, Unix, Mac, iOS".
It seems that when attributes are discussed, that there is an assumption
that the writer only wants to pick one value for the attribute. For
example, when setting
the vendor attribute, the writer only needs to choose between Windows or
Linux. However, we need to be able to specify more than value for the
vendor attribute.
For example some of our content applies to Windows only, some of the
content applies to Windows and Linux, some of the content applies to iOs
and Mac Os, some of the content
applies to Windows, Linux, and Mac Os, etc., As we support more operating
systems, the number of vendor combinations increases. We need to be able
to append the new OS to the
vendor attribute. We don't want to have a set of different combinations to
choose from as this would be cumbersome to work with.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Kate
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Kate Wringe | Senior Information Developer | SQL Anywhere Doc Team |
Sybase | 445 Wes Graham Way, Waterloo, ON, N2L 6R2 Canada | Tel: (519)
883-6838 | kate.wri...@sybase.com | www.sybase.com
