Re: User impressions and suggestions about

>> So perhaps a floating window that shows available tags, which changes
>> with context?
>> 
>> Can we have both context menus, and floating palettes of options?

> This is exactly what I was hoping for when I downloaded Conglomerate. 
> Personally, I envisioned some kind of sidebar (like the mozilla sidebar)
> that listed all the available tags for the DTD. I'd call this a Tag
> Palette or something. (I hadn't thought about limiting it only to the
> available tags based on the ancestors of the current position, but
> that'd be nice too.) Then I'd like to be able to select one of the tags
> from the sidebar and "paint" it on to the text of my document.

>sjbrown

I agree totally.  I would like to be able to make up my own DTD, start editing a document with conglomerate, and it only shows me tags that are valid for that DTD.  For attributes, I'd like to see a combobox with valid values (if the DTD specifies a list of values), an up-down arrow box (for integers), textbox for freeform text(replacing special characters with escaped syntax, naturally).  Required attributes, then, should create those gui elements that are appropriate for the attribute, and attributes with default values, I would have to right-click on the element to insert the attribute, and edit it.

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Dana A. Oredson