It would be nice to have a better method for inserting the hrefs for <xref>, <link>, <conref>, and <image>. As far as I can tell, the current feature set allows you to insert these elements, but then you need to hand-code the href. Would be nice to have a dialog box that allows you to select the target file -- for example, something like the way you can currently insert conrefs. Even nicer, it would be great to be able to drag-and-drop from the Project pane. For example, drag a topic file, and drop into an open DITA file (in Text or Author view), and an xref is inserted. Ctrl-drag, and a Related Link is inserted. Drag a graphic, and an <image> element is inserted, with the href already correctly defined. To get an xref to a particular element, it would be nice to have a feature something like this: - Select the target element - Select menu item "Create xref to target element", which results in the following: - If the selected element has no id attribute, an id attribute is created, or a dialog box opens, telling the user to specify the id attribute - The clipboard is then populated with the <xref> element with the href already correctly defined. - An optional dialog box could appear, telling the user that the xref has been formed and is on the clipboard - You then go to the place where you want to put the xref, and just paste it in. - Oxygen should adjust the syntax of the href, depending on where the user pastes it in. This would not just be a simple copy-paste, but would require some additional intelligence from Oxygen: - If the xref is pointing to content in the same file, the following syntax is used (as per the DITA Language Spec<http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/langspec/langref/xref.html#xref__attrs> ): href="#topicID" href="#topicID/elemID - If the xref target is in a different file: href="filename.dita#topicID" href="fname.dita#topicID/elemID" It would be nice to have similar copy/paste functionality for conrefs. Much easier than navigating through a dialog box. Thanks, Seraphim On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Radu Coravu <radu_coravu@sync.ro> wrote:
Hi,
We will study implementing this request for a future version.
Regards, Radu
-- Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com
Eliot Kimber wrote:
On 6/2/08 3:23 PM, "Seraphim Larsen" <seraphim37@gmail.com> wrote:
It would also be nice if the dialog box for inserting topicrefs would stay open after inserting each ref. That way you can keep inserting refs till you're done, rather than needing to open the dialog box every single time you add a new ref. Serna has this behavior and it's much easier to work with, in my opinion.
I agree--it's quite nice for organizing a set of existing topics into a new navigation hierarchy.
Cheers,
Eliot