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Jon Bosak wrote: > Because every well-formed XML document describes a tree, however, it's > also possible to have a "View Structure" option that would give you a > default navigable view of the document as a tree -- like the default > Jumbo behavior. This view would allow you to expand and collapse the > structure and it would show attribute nodes that could be opened to > see the attributes on each element. It could use a file manager > metaphor, like Jumbo, or it could use the plus-button/minus-button > interface used for most dynamic browser TOCs, or it could use > something else; the point is that it would be trivially autogenerated > on request, show the document in XML terms, and provide a commonly > understood base view independent of the application interface supplied > for a given document type that would always be available to people > trying to understand or debug an XML document. "View Structure" would > presumably *not* use different type sizes, etc., but concentrate > instead on exposing the guts of the document, so I would expect the > display generated by character-mode browsers to look roughly the same > as the display generated by the fancy graphics-mode browsers. An excellent example of this sort of view is found in FrameMaker+SGML's Structure View. It's useful for navigation, is easily expanded and contracted, and displays attributes too. (I loved this view even before I joined Adobe, honest!) </karl> ====================================================================== Karl F. Best voice 408-536-6531 Manager, Frame Developer Support fax 408-536-6883 Adobe Systems - San Jose, CA kbest@a... ====================================================================== xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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