November 2013 - oXygen-user - www.oxygenxml.com

Displaying empty elements (or not)
by Wendell Piez 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hi folks, oXygen supports the CSS3 selector :empty, so (for example) we can hide an element that has no content styled, in the Author View, for "preview", while showing it in an editing style. This is useful when, for example, editing documents whose schemas require elements in places where the user has no content for them. So if we have <sect><head/><p>Headless section</p></sect> we don't have to see anything where the empty 'head' element is, at least when oXygen Author is set to "No Tags". Unfortunately, however, since CSS isn't XPath, there's no way to suppress the 'sect' element, when we have <sect><head/></sect> (We can make the 'head' disappear but then we see a placeholder for the 'sect'.) I know the correct solution is not to deploy schemas that require elements that are not always used. But I wonder if anyone has a CSS workaround or an oXygen extension to suggest so that my oXygen XML Author preview can show something more like what the document will look like when it is formatted and the offending elements are dropped. Any ideas? Thanks, Wendell Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^

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Applying xml:lang across every file in map
by KAATMAN Matthew 05 Nov '13

05 Nov '13

Is there a way to select a map and apply an xml:lang across every file in that map to the main topic type tag? Thanks! Matt AVIS : Ce courrier et ses pieces jointes sont destines a leur seul destinataire et peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles appartenant a bioMerieux. Si vous n'etes pas destinataire, vous etes informe que toute lecture, divulgation, ou reproduction de ce message et des pieces jointes est strictement interdite. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur merci d'en prevenir l'expediteur et de le detruire, ainsi que ses pieces jointes. NOTICE: This message and attachments are intended only for the use of their addressee and may contain confidential information belonging to bioMerieux. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender immediately and delete this message, along with any attachments.

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feature request for syncing filesystem with webdav
by Jakob Fix 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Hi, we're using OxygenXML Enterprise for MarkLogic development, and it works really well (just wanted to say this). Here is a feature request of the "nice to have" category: Right now we're developing and running our Xquery modules from the filesystem. However, at some stage we want to run them from within a modules database. So we have to load them into the modules database probably using WebDAV or mlcp which is quite cumbersome. The temptation will be great to work directly in the modules database, via OxygenXML's WebDAV connectivity. If we did this we'd lose versioning via SVN as this requires the changes to be visible in the filesystem. If OxygenXML could watch a filesystem folder and sync it with a remote WebDAV resource (in the upload direction) whenever a change occurred, that would solve our conundrum. Until then we can of course use an external tool such as node.js + grunt.js (and its webdav-sync plugin [1]). While writing this, I'm wondering whether the "External Tools" in OxygenXML could provide a hook for grunt.js? Are there other ways of achieving this change-based synchronisation that we could use instead? thanks, Jakob. [1] https://npmjs.org/package/webdav-sync

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