Re: Automatic Insertion of Required Elements and Attributes

On 20/07/12 05:30, Dave Pawson wrote:
[...]
> 3. Then use (not dissimilar to psgml-mode) 
> < 
> 
> and nxml-mode will show the list of elements valid at that point.
> It will not automatically insert required elements.
> If you want that, it's up to you.

This is only one of a dozen or more missing facilities in nxml-mode.
I'm sure nxml-mode must be useful to some people, but that does not
include anyone who actually wants to write or edit a text document.

Whoever set the current distributions to default to nxml-mode for
xml-mode broke a useful functionality, and the sooner it is either
undone, or someone writes proper editing controls for nxml-mode, the better.

In the meantime, the simple solution for authors and editors is to open
a document, use M-x sgml-mode RET and then M-x xml-mode RET. This
overwrites the nxml-mode setting and allows documents to be edited with
proper control.

nxml-node is possibly useful for data documents, but it is not a usable
tool for editing XML text documents.

///Peter


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