Daniel Dekany wrote: > If I select a bunch of para-s (and like), and try wrap it (Ctrl + T), > XXE won't offer the "section" element, despite that "section" would be > a proper wrapper according to the schema. I suppose it's because > "section" needs a "title" child, and by merely wrapping into a > "section" it wouldn't be there. Still, inserting a "section" works as > expected (it adds an empty title automatically), I guess because there > is a hand-made template for new "section" elements. This reminds me to > the problem with DocBook 5 "link"-s (you can't wrap stuff into that > either, yet you can insert it). I understand that the core of the > problem is that merely with simple operations (adding one element at > once) it's not possible to build all possible valid XML-s through a > sequence of valid states... but since some of the problematic elements > can already be inserted, can't that feature be extended to > automatically work with wrapping as well? Like, can't those templates > (if you use templates for this) have a slot for the enclosed content? > Then, after wrapping into a bare "section" turns out to be invalid, > XXE could try wether wrapping into the template leads to valid state. > I don't know anyway... just thinking aloud. It's quite confusing when > elements are missing from the list for reasons like this. >
* May be this will work for you: explicitly select the first paragraph to be wrapped and then use DocBook|Demote (shortcut: "F2 Left-Arrow"). * XXE v4.3 (to be released next friday) has a slightly more powerful convert and split commands. However the enhanced convert command still cannot wrap paragraphs into a section. We do not intend to further enhance generic commands in the near future. If you often need to wrap paragraphs into a section, the only solution you'll have is to write a macro for that.
