John L. Clark wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:54:00PM -0500, Diane Rainaud wrote: > >>Am I missing something basic in XMLmind - is there a way to display >>such a list other than the 'Select ID' window since you can't delete >>from the 'Select ID' window? And if there is no such list from which >>I can delete the unwanted ID, any hints on how to find where it's >>being used? > > > At this time, there is not a general enough mechanism to locate such > things within an XML document using the XXE interface. However, the > first item (as of this writing) on the Users' Wish List[0] will help us > with this and many other problems in the future! When we have advanced > (hopefully structurally-aware) search capabilities within XXE, we may be > able to run a search directly for the attribute you want to zap. The > search string may look like: > > //*...@id="conclusions"] > > Of course, that requires knowledge of XPath, but the interface may > provide assistance in constructing such queries. > > If such a general search facility is then exposed as a command[1], we > can even implement more meaningful and powerful high-level operations, > such as "remove all attributes matching this pattern", which would give > you enough control to pinpoint and zap specific id attributes as well as > others in clusters. I am greatly excited by both the present and future > potential for this software! > > Take care, > > John L. Clark > > [0] http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/wish_list.html > > [1] http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/commands/ch06.html
Thanks for answering Diane Rainaud's questions. I must confess that I'm more at ease with complex, technical, power-user questions than with simple, end-user questions.
