Re: How to display/edit attributes inline

On 26.5.2004 16:15 Uhr, Nick Mangine wrote:

> I am looking into the feasibility of using BXE as an editor for EAD
> (http://www.loc.gov/ead/).  This is a fairly complex XML Schema used for
> Archival Description.  I've run into two problems and they both involve
> attributes and how to display them:
> 
> 1. Given the following tag:
> 
> <container id="MC233.7" type="box">7</container>
> 
> I need to display "Box MC233.7".  As you can see, the text within the
> tag is not important, it's the attributes that need to be displayed and
> edited.

mmmh. not really possible right now, and I don't know an easy solution 
just yet. Maybe I'll have one later ;) One solution would be to use a
bxe_xpath like "container/@id", but I doubt, that it will work right now.

Another question? Does it have to be editable? (I assume so...), 
otherwise displaying it could be done with css. With this
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#before-and-after
and this
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/generate.html#content
> 
> 
> 2. A common technique within this schema is to place display information
> within the attributes.  For example, the following two tags need to be
> displayed bold and underlined respectively:
> 
> <title render="bold">Title of Book</title>
> <title render="underline">Another Title</title>
> 

should be possible:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#attribute-selectors

> I don't see a way to do either of these things using CSS.  So my next
> thought was to use xsl to transform them to:
> 
> <container>
>   <type>box</type>
>   <id>MC233.7</id>
>   7
> </container>
> 
> and:
> 
> <title>
>   <renderBold>
>     Title of Book
>   </renderBold>
> </title>
> <title>
>   <renderUnderline>
>     Another Title
>   </renderUnderline>
> </title>
> 
> I remember seeing something about "transformxml.xsl".  Could I do this
> transformation there?  Is that the best solution?  Is there a way to do
> this without mucking up the XML schema?  Because that defeats the
> purpose of an XML editor.

The whole xslt transformation stuff is currently not really maintained 
and works only soso... Is planned for a later release and when we have 
the resources for doing that.

Hope that helps and if you have any further questions, just ask

chregu

>
> Thanks for your help.
> 

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