On 03/15/2011 09:30 AM, Philippe Nobili wrote: > > Sorry if this sounds like a peculiar question... > > In our XXE plugin to author our processing dedicated XML-dialect, we > have several view presenting (in the manner of the various DocBook > styles) either the structure, the full content, a summary, etc etc. > > This is nice, but not 100% satisfactory as all information is displayed > (although with different levels of details) in all views, which may be > complicated to manage in our case where the flow is a series of more or > less independent elements. > > In order to build a really nice interactive editor, it would be very > useful for us to be able to create a view behaving like a contextual > editor on the selected element. This view would display* only the > selected element* and will be empty if there is no selection. > > Of course the other views will continue normally to serve as selection > sources. > > Would you see there any way to achieve this with XXE ?
Using styled views, the answer is definitely no: a hidden parent or ancestor element cannot have displayed child or descendant elements. -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
