Friday, May 25, 2007, 3:45:10 PM, Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE) wrote: > Hi, > > Well, not really but our editors are pretty challenging. > If you could see their wish list....
I guess Hussein will correct me if I got their intent wrong, but... maybe the key would be to achieve that they realize that XXE is not meant to show you the documents as it will look like printed, and not only because it would be slow and hard to implement, but because it's not its approach. XXE don't want to hide from the editor that (s)he is working with an XML node tree. Not at all. What I like in XXE is exactly that I (more-less) "feel" where I am in the XML node tree, that I can precisely edit, precisely control the node tree, and yet I see something that is much easier to survey than that mess of XML tags that you see with a "plain text" editor. Now, in the generic case, too much formatting, like floating or absolute positioned stuff (not to mention transformations that real XSL style-sheet have to do) would make controlling the node tree harder. Certainly display:compact wouldn't hurt (it doesn't rearrange visually the nodes), but if your editors look like XXE as this, an XML node tree level editor, these things won't trouble them that much. Well, the only question is if they like the idea of node-tree-level editing... I would think that this possibility is the a main advantage of using these typical XML schemas over MS World and like. > thanks, > Roman -- Best regards, Daniel Dekany
