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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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