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):
       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