As soon as I hit send, I woke up a little and realized that what
you really want is a dialog box in the editor (launched by a button or
whatever) that lets the writer click one or more checkboxes for each value,
then when they click ok, it turns the selected values into a comma delimited
list as the attribute value. For my xrefstyle case, I’d use radio buttons
instead of check boxes. The user is still free to edit the attribute value
manually. You could also customize the xslts to check the list of values to
make sure nothing unsupported was entered.
David
From: Cramer, David W
(David) [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 6:43 AM
To: Bob Stayton; ;
Subject: RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
Hi Kate,
As Bob says, the DocBook xsl’s profiling mechanism supports
this, but I take your question to be about the authoring side of the problem.
What you really want to know is if there’s a way to help the writer avoid doing
something like vendor=”Windows XP, Linix” (where “Linix” is misspelled and so
won’t have the desired effect). That seems to me a matter of editor customization.
In fact, this is on my list of things to look into wrt the xrefstyle attribute.
In that case, I would like to offer the writer a list of typical choices but
still leave them free to enter arbitrary text so I don’ t have to enumerate
every possibility in the schema. I haven’t figured out what to do yet, so
please let me know if you come up with a situation. You might also ask your
editor’s support folks to see if they have suggestions.
David
From: Bob Stayton
[mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:02 PM
To: ;
Subject: Re: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
Yes,
you can do this. See the third bullet item in this reference:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MultiProfile.html
Bob
Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
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Subject: [docbook] More than
one value for an attribute.
Hello,
Is there a way
to define an attribute so that the writer can select more than one choice for
its value (i.e., can an attribute be set to a delimited list of values)?
For example:
vendor= "Windows XP, Windows 2008, Linux, Unix, Mac, iOS".
It seems that
when attributes are discussed, that there is an assumption that the writer only
wants to pick one value for the attribute. For example, when setting
the vendor
attribute, the writer only needs to choose between Windows or Linux. However,
we need to be able to specify more than value for the vendor attribute.
For example
some of our content applies to Windows only, some of the content applies to
Windows and Linux, some of the content applies to iOs and Mac Os, some of the
content
applies to
Windows, Linux, and Mac Os, etc., As we support more operating systems, the
number of vendor combinations increases. We need to be able to append the new
OS to the
vendor
attribute. We don't want to have a set of different combinations to choose from
as this would be cumbersome to work with.
Any thoughts or
suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Kate
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