Thank you, Alex and Radu. I was able to get a version of both of these solutions working in short-order and will demo to my team.

With respect to the solution based on the actions, I wasn't able to get the processing instruction to go in as a fragment. I was able to get non-placeholder text to enter just fine. Perhaps it's a css issue because the link target is shown as placeholder text by default?

It was really helpful to see both of these. I can envision several other cases where I can use both approaches to perform other tasks that I've been working on.
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Hi,


Another option would be to cascade [1] the existing action with a a new one that inserts a comment or a placeholder that is removed once the user types text [2]:


<?oxy-placeholder content="Enter a title"?>


To summarize it you will have to:

- create one action that inserts this comment

- create one action based on ExecuteMultipleActionsOperation [2] that cascades the xref and the previous action

- you replace the xref action from the toolbar with this new action based on ExecuteMultipleActionsOperation


[1] https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/dg-default-author-operations.html#dg-default-author-operations__executemultipleactionsoperation

[2] https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/dg-placeholder-css-extension.html

Best regards,
Alex
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On 2/16/2023 8:00 AM, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) wrote:

Hello Cody,


Indeed the "InsertXrefOperation" Java operation does not have a parameter to specify some fixed text to insert inside the link, I added an internal issue based on your feedback. I do not have an easy workaround for you, it's possible that what you want would be possible with a Java based extension which would somehow listen for inserted links and add that text inside the inserted link.


But coming back to your use case which seems to be to always add custom text inside a link to a web page, I would rather suggest using a custom Schematron schema to signal as a validation error to the end user that the link is empty:


https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/sharing_schematron_validation_rules.html


So a Schematron schema like this would report a user friendly warning if there is an empty link:

<sch:schema xmlns:sch="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" queryBinding="xslt2"
    xmlns:sqf="http://www.schematron-quickfix.com/validator/process">
    <sch:pattern>
        <sch:rule context="xref[@format='html'][@scope='external']">
            <sch:assert test="node()">An external link should have custom link text set inside.</sch:assert>
        </sch:rule>
    </sch:pattern>
</sch:schema>

Regards,

Radu

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Oxygen XML Editor
On 2/15/23 18:17, Cody Steele wrote:
I was following along with Frank's questions. 

My interest was in editing the author action insert.url.reference for a web link by adding something like <!--Insert link text here--> inside of the XREF element. It doesn't look like any of the arguments for ro.sync.ecss.extensions.dita.link.InsertXrefOperation lets you insert a fragment. Is it correct that I should proceed to the involving the DITA extension framework or is there another method that makes more sense to you?

Thanks,

Cody
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Hi Frank,


Let's split your use cases in two:

1) Inserting elements using Oxygen's actions (toolbars, menus)

2) Inserting elements using the content completion window.


1)


Let's take table insertion for example:


If you edit your DITA framework extension that is defined in the Preferences->"Document Type Association" page, it has an "Author=>Actions" tab.

If you edit the action "insert.table", it calls an operation named "ro.sync.ecss.extensions.dita.topic.table.InsertTableOperation" with certain parameters. One of the parameters is named "cellFragment", you can set its value to "<p/>".

There are other ways to change a table, for example insert a new column, insert a new row. So actions like "insert.table.row.below" or "insert.table.column.after" which also need to be changed accordingly.


2) Inserting elements like <info> using the content completion window.

Your DITA extension framework customization can contain a "cc_config.xml" file which defines that for certain elements, if they are inserted, another element should be inserted inside them as well:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/configure-elements-attr-cc-individually.html#configure-elements-attr-cc-individually__examples_configuring_elements


Hope this helps.


Regards,

Radu


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Oxygen XML Editor
On 1/24/23 11:49, Frank Dissinger wrote:

Hi list,


Whenever this is valid, I wrap text in a <p> element. I would like oXygen to automatically insert <p> as a child element when inserting <table>, <simpletable> (for the table cells of course), <info>, <stepresult>, <stepxmp>... and many more. How do I do this?


Regards,

Frank

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