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Well the project is not considered so much as a product but as an XML specialist set of tools. This is one of the simpler tools in the set. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen On 9/7/06, Frans Englich <frans.englich@t...> wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 13:48, bryan rasmussen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If you were generating views of XML files for display in some editor > > type environment what would people be interested in seeing in sort of > > a side display, things I can think of offhand - > > > > 1. Number of namespaces used > > 2. number of namespaced elements > > 3. Does it use specific namespaces > > 4. Any possible links in the documents > > 5. IDS and IDREFs? > > 6. XML Schema references? > > I don't think that's a good way to approach it. I think one should start with > what determining what the user do, to then conclude what the user need. For > example, why would the user like to know the amount of namespaces? Many GUIs > are over-loaded with complexity, and one thing that could contribute is > statistics that aren't useful. > > What I sometimes have felt an urge for is to know at what child-position an > element has. For example, let's saying I'm edding node d: > > <a> > <b/> > <c/> > <d/> > <e/> > </a> > > Then I would like to know that it's the third child, because it's not so > uncommon for content to somehow be related to that, according to my > experience. > > I also wonder whether xml-dev is the right place for this kind of user-centric > questions. xml-dev isn't exactly representative. > > > Cheers, > > Frans >
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