On 12/16/2013 6:32 PM, Mike Alexander wrote: > On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:49 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: >> All of which is utterly moot, because it doesn’t work with our documents: It >> requires that you open each file separately for editing. It will display the >> whole document just fine, but it won’t let you edit anything that’s in a >> separate file. It’s too dumb, even when the master document is opened as a >> document set, to go look at the master document for the attribute >> references, so none of the chapter files will load. > Editing entities inline is tougher than you think because entities can have > quite a different environment than the parent document. This is probably not > true of GnuCash documents, but in the general case can be. I was involved > in implementing that one time and it's not trivial. It's more likely that > they allow editing of XIncludes inline than entities (although I haven't > looked so I don't know for sure) and we could probably change things to use > them instead of entities. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > As a non-developer who is used to simple editors like e-mail editors up to the various Office Suite editors, I can report that my first try to generate a patch file with TortoiseGit was not completely successful, but it seemed close enough for that example.
One of the difficulties that I had was figuring out which steps had to be done online or offline and in which order in which software since there were several programs and files involved in that unfamiliar setting. I thought I was juggling six bowling pins at once. I think that a developer could put together an instruction sheet with all the specific details to use it on those specific GnuCash documents in the current format. John already put most of it earlier in this thread. If there were some references to examples of similar XML, the form of the syntax is easy, but valid tags and their definitions for that particular style and nesting are not so easy, but not too hard either. I still have a working copy of Lotus WordPro which even today is my favorite editor for certain types of documents and XML is one of those types. In Windows with the end-of-line issue, a recommendation for an editor that respects that would help too. David C _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
