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Dave Carlson writes: > I have the xml-mode installed for emacs (running on WinNT 4.0), using the > most current versions of each. Although I can edit XML docs reasonably > well, I have a couple of significant problems. I'm not a regular emacs > user, so maybe the solution lies is configuring emacs for NT. > > 1. The right mouse button doesn't bring up the context menu, but > shift-rightMouse does bring up the menu. Right mouse button alone does nothing. It depends on which Emacs you're using. With XEmacs, the right mouse button brings up the dialog; with vanilla Gnu Emacs (the source of the NT port), it seems to be shift-right-mouse. Nothing in my patches should affect the mouse buttons -- have you seen the same behaviour in PSGML without my XML patches? > 2. The DTD is parsed, but all element names are folded into all lower case. > Does the current version of xml-mode support mixed-case element names? If > so, what am I doing wrong? Are you certain that you're using the latest version of the patches (from Fall 1997) and that you're actually in XML rather than SGML mode? Does it read 'XML' or 'SGML' in the mode bar at the bottom? > 3. The attributes defined for an element are added into the document tag in > reverse order compared to their definition in the DTD. I'd prefer > consistent ordering. > For example: > <!ELEMENT Class ( Comment?, (field)* ) > > <!ATTLIST Class name ID #REQUIRED > > <!ATTLIST Class extends IDREF #IMPLIED > > > Produces the XML document: > <class extends="bar" name="foo"> > </class> This is another general PSGML issue -- it behaves the same way without my XML patches. > 4. Font highlighting has some problems. I've configuring my _emacs file > according to earlier posts in this list, but the text highlighing only > appears after I've used the context menu to insert a new tag. Then, the > text is only highlighted from that point *backward* in the document. When I > first load a document, no text is highlighted. Again, this is not directly related to the XML patches. PSGML will highlight only the parts of the document that it has already parsed. In Unix, at least, it will eventually parse ahead and highlight the whole thing. Thanks for the note, and all the best, David -- David Megginson ak117@f... Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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