When I work with XMLmind XML editor, I almost always work with compound
documents with Xinclude includes.
The structur of our documents tend to look like this:
Book-document (which embeds)
Chapter 1-document (which embeds)
Section 1 of Chapter 1-document
Section 2 of Chapter 1-document
Chapter 2-document (which embeds)
Section 1 of Chapter 2-document
Section 2 of Chapter 2-document
[ … etc …]
Example issue description:
0) I open the Book-document and find something to edit in Section 2 of
Chapter 1
1) XXE allows me to Ctrl-Click that section, so that I get a Ctrl-Click
menu from where I can selct the submenu “Edit Referenced Document” .
2) The very text of the above Ctrl-Click menu implies that when the
referenced document gets opened, I shall immediate be able to edit
Section 2 of Chapter 1-document.
** (Note: One may say that there are actually - in this case - two
referenced documents: The Chapter 1-document as well as the Section 2 of
Chapter 1-document. However, since the mouse pointer actually points to
a par of the Section 2 of Chapter 1-document, it seems naturally to
think that that is the document that is referenced) **
3) But instead, what happens is that the parent document – the Chapter
1-document – gets opened.
4) This means that in order to edit the Section 2 of Chapter 1-document,
I must now repeat step «1)» on the Chapter 1-document: I must point to
the Section 1 of Chapter 1-document and select “Edit referenced
document”.
** (NOTE: If I had a subsection document, I would have had to
repeated step 1) yet another time.) **
Conclusion:
I find the current two-steps solution behavior tedious and confusing.
For instance, the book I work on right now, have near 20 chapters, of
which almost every chapter has several sections. Each time I want to
edit such a section, I must perform the two steps described above.
Proposal:
I suggest instead a one-step solution: when one points to a part that is
embedded in another document that is also embedded, then it is the
innermost embedded document - the exact part that you are pointing to –
that should become opened.
Leif Halvard Silli
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