assistance for associating an XML document with a stylesheet?
Hello, I was leading a course on XML, XSLT and related technologies a few weeks ago, and a question came up that has occurred to me sometimes: Oxygen offers automated assistance for associating an XML document with a DTD or Schema, inserting the appropriate declaration into the XML document. Can it do the same for associating an XML document with a stylesheet? E.g. I would like to insert <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="abc.xsl" ?> at the top of the document, but I have a hard time remembering the pseudo-attributes. One way to approach it would be, I type <? and press Ctrl+Space to get some suggested completions, like <?xml and <?xml-stylesheet When I choose xml-stylesheet, I would get suggested pseudoattributes "type" and "href" with appropriate values. Another approach is to enhance the Document / XML Document / Associate menu item to allow associating a stylesheet. Regards, Lars
Hello, I added a feature request on our bugzilla for autocompletion on the name and attributes of the processing instructions "xml-stylesheet" and "oxygen". The second one is created by the Associate schema action. Generally "xml-stylesheet" is interpreted by a web browser when it formats the XML document for display. I think the second approach about adding an action for stylesheets like Associate schema for schemas duplicates the association of a transformation scenario. The transformation scenario is the mechanism used in <oXygen/> to associate a stylesheet with an XML document. Best regards, Sorin http://www.oxygenxml.com/ Lars Huttar wrote:
Hello, I was leading a course on XML, XSLT and related technologies a few weeks ago, and a question came up that has occurred to me sometimes: Oxygen offers automated assistance for associating an XML document with a DTD or Schema, inserting the appropriate declaration into the XML document. Can it do the same for associating an XML document with a stylesheet? E.g. I would like to insert <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="abc.xsl" ?> at the top of the document, but I have a hard time remembering the pseudo-attributes.
One way to approach it would be, I type <? and press Ctrl+Space to get some suggested completions, like <?xml and <?xml-stylesheet When I choose xml-stylesheet, I would get suggested pseudoattributes "type" and "href" with appropriate values.
Another approach is to enhance the Document / XML Document / Associate menu item to allow associating a stylesheet.
Regards, Lars
Sorin Ristache wrote:
Hello,
I added a feature request on our bugzilla for autocompletion on the name and attributes of the processing instructions "xml-stylesheet" and "oxygen". Thanks! That will be very helpful. The second one is created by the Associate schema action. Generally "xml-stylesheet" is interpreted by a web browser when it formats the XML document for display. I think the second approach about adding an action for stylesheets like Associate schema for schemas duplicates the association of a transformation scenario. The transformation scenario is the mechanism used in <oXygen/> to associate a stylesheet with an XML document. The missing piece though is that the transformation scenario mechanism doesn't provide a way to record the association in the XML document itself... does it? (In other words, to persist the association.) Currently the "Edit [transformation] scenario" dialog has a checkbox called 'Use "xml-stylesheet" declaration'. If it also had a button or checkbox to 'Insert xml-stylesheet declaration' [tooltip: Insert xml-stylesheet declaration into document now] (grayed out unless the XSL URL field has been populated), then that would meet the need.
Lars
Best regards, Sorin
Lars Huttar wrote:
Hello, I was leading a course on XML, XSLT and related technologies a few weeks ago, and a question came up that has occurred to me sometimes: Oxygen offers automated assistance for associating an XML document with a DTD or Schema, inserting the appropriate declaration into the XML document. Can it do the same for associating an XML document with a stylesheet? E.g. I would like to insert <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="abc.xsl" ?> at the top of the document, but I have a hard time remembering the pseudo-attributes.
One way to approach it would be, I type <? and press Ctrl+Space to get some suggested completions, like <?xml and <?xml-stylesheet When I choose xml-stylesheet, I would get suggested pseudoattributes "type" and "href" with appropriate values.
Another approach is to enhance the Document / XML Document / Associate menu item to allow associating a stylesheet.
Regards, Lars
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Hello, We will study the possibility of inserting an xml-stylesheet processing instruction from the user interface. The inserted processing instruction could add custom pseudo attributes with transformation scenario parameters specific for <oXygen/>. Such pseudo attributes will be ignored by browsers / other applications. Best regards, Sorin http://www.oxygenxml.com/ Lars Huttar wrote:
The missing piece though is that the transformation scenario mechanism doesn't provide a way to record the association in the XML document itself... does it? (In other words, to persist the association.) Currently the "Edit [transformation] scenario" dialog has a checkbox called 'Use "xml-stylesheet" declaration'. If it also had a button or checkbox to 'Insert xml-stylesheet declaration' [tooltip: Insert xml-stylesheet declaration into document now] (grayed out unless the XSL URL field has been populated), then that would meet the need.
Lars
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