From simonh at wincom-consulting.co.uk  Mon Oct  6 07:03:04 2008
From: simonh at wincom-consulting.co.uk (Simon Heath)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:03:04 +0200
Subject: [Etna] Editing attributes with no content
Message-ID: <002501c927ab$7ef0c910$4001a8c0@Vaio>

Dear Anybody,

I like etna, but it lack examples and that make it difficult to get into (shame nice looking XML editor)

I want to edit XML like this 

<WorkInstruction>
 <DocumentTitle>Migration Director Examples</DocumentTitle>
 <DocInfo>
  <property name="customer" value="PTC"/>
 </DocInfo> 
</WorkInstruction>

but the property has no "content", so I cannot edit the attributes. I wrote a css where they are displayed but that is as far as I got. 

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Simon
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From laurent.jouanneau at disruptive-innovations.com  Mon Oct  6 08:19:48 2008
From: laurent.jouanneau at disruptive-innovations.com (Laurent Jouanneau)
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:19:48 +0200
Subject: [Etna] Editing attributes with no content
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Message-ID: <48EA1074.7070608@disruptive-innovations.com>

Hello Simon,

This is an issue you find in any document editor: you cannot edit things 
you don't see :-)

But this is easy to fix with an extension for Etna. For this kind of 
problem, an extension should provide a dialog, or any other interface 
widget, which allows to modify things which are not visible in the 
document. Exactly like in MSWord/OpenOffice, with the dialog which 
allows you to edit properties of a document (title, description, 
keywords, user name etc..)

Laurent


Simon Heath wrote:
> Dear Anybody,
>  
> I like etna, but it lack examples and that make it difficult to get into 
> (shame nice looking XML editor)
>  
> I want to edit XML like this
>  
> <WorkInstruction>
>  <DocumentTitle>Migration Director Examples</DocumentTitle>
>  <DocInfo>
>   <property name="customer" value="PTC"/>
>  </DocInfo> 
> </WorkInstruction>
>  
> but the property has no "content", so I cannot edit the attributes. I 
> wrote a css where they are displayed but that is as far as I got.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> Thanks in advance,
> Simon
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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> Etna mailing list
> Etna at cnx.rice.edu
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-- 
Laurent Jouanneau, Software Engineer @ Disruptive Innovations SARL
We build today the tools you are going to use tomorrow
http://www.disruptive-innovations.com


From simonh at wincom-consulting.co.uk  Mon Oct  6 16:42:43 2008
From: simonh at wincom-consulting.co.uk (Simon Heath)
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:42:43 +0200
Subject: [Etna] Editing attributes with no content
References: <002501c927ab$7ef0c910$4001a8c0@Vaio>
	<48EA1074.7070608@disruptive-innovations.com>
Message-ID: <001701c927fc$7901e920$4001a8c0@Vaio>

Hi Laurent,

Thank you for the reply I was not expecting one to be honest. I really like 
the tool and want to include it in an open source project I am working on. I 
liked that it was not "techie" really all the the other tools are written 
for XML nerds not normal people.

Anyway I see what you mean but I used css to make the properties appear, I 
understand they could not be edited but wanted to click them to be able to 
edit the attibutes. So anyway I am a java guy so updating the code will take 
me a while although I might get around to it one day :-) I have a work 
around that I add the <text/> in the schema but this also text to be added 
when I do not really want that.

I think I am trying to use an editor to write an XML that is not really a 
document more a data definition.

Thanks again,

Simon




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurent Jouanneau" <laurent.jouanneau at disruptive-innovations.com>
To: "Simon Heath" <simonh at wincom-consulting.co.uk>; <etna at cnx.rice.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Etna] Editing attributes with no content


> Hello Simon,
>
> This is an issue you find in any document editor: you cannot edit things 
> you don't see :-)
>
> But this is easy to fix with an extension for Etna. For this kind of 
> problem, an extension should provide a dialog, or any other interface 
> widget, which allows to modify things which are not visible in the 
> document. Exactly like in MSWord/OpenOffice, with the dialog which allows 
> you to edit properties of a document (title, description, keywords, user 
> name etc..)
>
> Laurent
>
>
> Simon Heath wrote:
>> Dear Anybody,
>>  I like etna, but it lack examples and that make it difficult to get into 
>> (shame nice looking XML editor)
>>  I want to edit XML like this
>>  <WorkInstruction>
>>  <DocumentTitle>Migration Director Examples</DocumentTitle>
>>  <DocInfo>
>>   <property name="customer" value="PTC"/>
>>  </DocInfo> </WorkInstruction>
>>  but the property has no "content", so I cannot edit the attributes. I 
>> wrote a css where they are displayed but that is as far as I got.
>>  Any ideas?
>>  Thanks in advance,
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Etna mailing list
>> Etna at cnx.rice.edu
>> http://mailman.cnx.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/etna
>
>
> -- 
> Laurent Jouanneau, Software Engineer @ Disruptive Innovations SARL
> We build today the tools you are going to use tomorrow
> http://www.disruptive-innovations.com