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Subject: RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
- From: Kate.Wringe@sybase.com
- To: "Cramer, David W (David)" <dcramer@motive.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:58:01 -0500
Thank you to all who responded to my
query.
David's example with xrefstyle is close
to what I want to be able to do. I define the vendor attribute as follows
<define name="db.vendor.attribute">
<attribute name="vendor">
<a:documentation>Indicates
the level of user experience for which the element applies</a:documentation>
<choice>
<value
type="token">Windows</value>
<value
type="token">Linux</value>
<value
type="token">Mac</value>
<value
type="token">iOS</value>
<value
type="token">Blackberry</value>
</choice>
</attribute>
</define>
Then in my XML file, I set the vendor
attribute to two values (separating them with a semi-colon)
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
version="5.0" xml:id="da-dboptions" remap="concept"
vendor="Blackberry;Mac">
But, I keep getting the following error
in my authoring tool (I'm using oXygen)
SystemID: C:\src\db\pubs\dbAdmin\da-dboptions2.xml
Engine name: Jing
Severity: error
Description: value of attribute "vendor"
is invalid; must be equal to "Windows", "Linux", "Mac",
"iOs" or "Blackberry"
Start location: 13:23
End location: 13:34
Is there something that I need to set
in the RNG file so that it knows that the vendor attribute can have more
than one value?
Thanks,
Kate
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"Cramer, David W (David)"
<dcramer@motive.com>
02/02/2011 11:06 AM
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Ah, perfect for my case and
so simple. All I have to do (using RelaxNG and Oxygen) is:
<define name="db.xrefstyle.attribute">
<attribute name="xrefstyle">
<a:documentation>Specifies a keyword or keywords identifying additional
style information</a:documentation>
<choice>
<value type="token">select: nopage</value>
<value type="token">select: label nopage</value>
<value type="token">select: linktext</value>
<text/>
</choice>
</attribute>
</define>
Not sure about Kate’s case
:-)
Thanks,
David
From: rob.cavicchio@emc.com [mailto:rob.cavicchio@emc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 9:17 AM
To: Cramer, David W (David); bobs@sagehill.net; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org;
Kate.Wringe@sybase.com
Subject: RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
As you say, I think it is editor
customization, and that depends on the editor.
In Arbortext Editor, you can
get what amounts to a combobox, with free form text entry in addition to
a list of common choices. You do this by defining an attribute value space
to be the union of an enumeration (list of specific items) and a text pattern
that defines exactly what you can type. For example:
<xs:simpleType name="vendor">
<xs:union>
<!-- TYPICAL VALUES TO CHOOSE FROM -->
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restriction
base="xs:string">
<xs:enumeration value="linux"
/>
<xs:enumeration value="mac" />
<xs:enumeration value="windows"
/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
<!-- STRING PATTERN IF TYPED MANUALLY -->
<xs:simpleType>
<xs:restriction
base="xs:string">
<xs:pattern value="(linux|mac|windows)((;(linux|mac|windows))*)?"
/>
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:union>
</xs:simpleType>
I don't know if other editors
would handle this in a similar way.
From: Cramer, David W (David) [mailto:dcramer@motive.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 4:58 AM
To: Bob Stayton; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; Kate.Wringe@sybase.com
Subject: RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
As soon as I hit send, I
woke up a little and realized that what you really want is a dialog box
in the editor (launched by a button or whatever) that lets the writer click
one or more checkboxes for each value, then when they click ok, it turns
the selected values into a comma delimited list as the attribute value.
For my xrefstyle case, I’d use radio buttons instead of check boxes. The
user is still free to edit the attribute value manually. You could
also customize the xslts to check the list of values to make sure nothing
unsupported was entered.
David
From: Cramer, David W (David) [mailto:dcramer@motive.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 6:43 AM
To: Bob Stayton; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; Kate.Wringe@sybase.com
Subject: RE: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
Hi Kate,
As Bob says, the DocBook
xsl’s profiling mechanism supports this, but I take your question to be
about the authoring side of the problem. What you really want to know is
if there’s a way to help the writer avoid doing something like vendor=”Windows
XP, Linix” (where “Linix” is misspelled and so won’t have the desired
effect). That seems to me a matter of editor customization. In fact, this
is on my list of things to look into wrt the xrefstyle attribute. In that
case, I would like to offer the writer a list of typical choices but still
leave them free to enter arbitrary text so I don’ t have to enumerate
every possibility in the schema. I haven’t figured out what to do yet,
so please let me know if you come up with a situation. You might also ask
your editor’s support folks to see if they have suggestions.
David
From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:02 PM
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org; Kate.Wringe@sybase.com
Subject: Re: [docbook] More than one value for an attribute.
Yes, you can do this. See the third
bullet item in this reference:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/MultiProfile.html
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Kate.Wringe@sybase.com
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:43
PM
Subject: [docbook] More than one value
for an attribute.
Hello,
Is there a way to define an attribute so that the writer can select more
than one choice for its value (i.e., can an attribute be set to a delimited
list of values)?
For example: vendor= "Windows XP, Windows 2008, Linux, Unix, Mac,
iOS".
It seems that when attributes are discussed, that there is an assumption
that the writer only wants to pick one value for the attribute. For example,
when setting
the vendor attribute, the writer only needs to choose between Windows or
Linux. However, we need to be able to specify more than value for the vendor
attribute.
For example some of our content applies to Windows only, some of the content
applies to Windows and Linux, some of the content applies to iOs and Mac
Os, some of the content
applies to Windows, Linux, and Mac Os, etc., As we support more operating
systems, the number of vendor combinations increases. We need to be able
to append the new OS to the
vendor attribute. We don't want to have a set of different combinations
to choose from as this would be cumbersome to work with.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Kate
..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Kate Wringe | Senior Information
Developer | SQL Anywhere Doc Team |
Sybase | 445 Wes Graham Way, Waterloo, ON, N2L 6R2 Canada | Tel: (519)
883-6838 | kate.wringe@sybase.com | www.sybase.com
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