Re: Using sgml-insert-element

On onsdag, aug 13, 2003, at 11:43 Europe/Stockholm, David Chadd wrote:

> If an xml element 'foo' has a required attribute 'bar', the function
> sgml-insert-element will ask for the value of this attribute at
> run-time.  But I want to be able to do something like this inside a
> defun:
>
> (setq bar-value "blort")
> (sgml-insert-element "foo")
> (sgml-insert-attribute "bar" bar-value)
>
> to produce <foo bar="blort">
>
> Of course, this simply pauses with the minibuffer prompt for the
> value, which rather misses the point of it!  Is there a psgml variable
> I can temporarily set (perhaps inside a 'let' routine) that will stop
> this happening?

Yes, the variable sgml-new-attribute-list-function. The variable should 
contain a function of one argument that returns the list of attributes. 
This function is called by sgml-insert-element with the element as 
argument. Default value is sgml-default-asl, this is the function that 
asks for the values of required attributes. You could supply a dummy 
function (of one argument) that returns nil.

Alternatively the function could return

     (list (sgml-make-attspec "bar" "blort") )

//Lennart



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