Philippe Nobili wrote: > > We have two questions related to XMLMind > > A- Conversion customization > > Apart from having our XSL customization layers (that we load from an > in-house XMLMind addon), we need to customize the xlsMenu.incl file > delivered with XMLMind. The reasons why we have to do this are: > > 1) To fix some problem with PNG images not being copied with the > resources (only the draft.png is copied) > 2) To copy our own CSS and PNG files rather than the distributed ones > > So far to do this we could not find any other way than having a copy of > almost the entire xslMenu.incl file, as they are many procedures to > change (e.g. docb.convertStep1, docb.toHTML, docb.toHTML1, docb.toRTF, > etc etc), even if the change is limited one line. > > We have to do this at each new version to make sure we are on line with > the current version of this file. Actually, the only thing that we need > to customize in this file is the path to our customized resources > (icons, CSS style sheets) that replace the resources packaged with XMLMInd. > > Would you suggest a more clever way to achieve the same effect ? > > > B- Customized XSLT Stylesheets > > We would like to have several sets of customized XSLT stylesheets > instead of one only. Would you have a suggestion on how we could achieve > this, maybe using the load/save parameter set of XMLMind 4.3 ?
--> No, the load/save parameter set feature of XMLMind 4.3 is just a feature targeted at the end-user which makes it easy working with profiling style sheets. --> There are two simple ways to customize the process commands contained in the xlsMenu.incl file [a] "Parametrizing the XSLT style sheets used in the Convert Document submenu" -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/parametrize_xslt.html [b] "Customizing the XSLT style sheets used in the Convert Document submenu" -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/customize_xslt.html However, the above techniques are meant to fulfill simple needs. Your needs are pretty sophisticated, so you cannot use the above techniques. --> You should no hesitate to write a *complete* *replacement* for xlsMenu.incl. After all, XXE configuration files have been designed to allow consultants to do that. * Customizing an XXE configuration in a clean and maintainable way is explained here: "Customizing an existing configuration" -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/customizing.html (but I guess that you already know that). * You'll very seldom have to update your customization when you'll upgrade your version of XXE. I would even say that I don't see why you would need to change anything in it before next major version upgrade (v5, currently not planned).
