[oXygen-user] Pick lists in Author mode

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)]

Hi Wendell,

So one option for this would indeed to use the oxy_xpath CSS function to 
gather values from some place and then use them in the form control.
For example:

> link:before{
>       content: "Managed by:"
>         oxy_editor(
>             type, combo,
>             edit, "@manager",
>             values, oxy_xpath('string-join(//@id , ",") '));

The oxy_xpath could also look in some external file using the document 
function and then combine all values with the "," character in order to 
set them as a parameter for the form control.

This approach might lead to performance problems though. So if you hit 
any performance problems:

We already have API to provide values for attributes and elements via an 
Java extension. My colleague Alex has been working on such an 
implementation which picks values from an XML configuration document.
So if you contact us directly I could try to give you a JAR library and 
some instructions to set this up.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 10/16/2014 5:03 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think the forms-like editing in Author mode is fantastic. One thing
> I like being able to do is having a pull-down listing valid values for
> element or attribute contents.
>
> One thing I have a need for -- to have the choice of valid values
> specified dynamically, in the document itself or close by.
>
> I can specify a rule in Schematron that checks whether arbitrary (key)
> relations hold in a document (or across two or more documents), but I
> wonder how I can get oXygen to read the permissible values (however
> they are defined and constrained, for example as a set of attribute
> values in metadata) and pop them up in a picklist.
>
> Essentially this is like an ID/IDREF requirement, only generalized,
> and specifiable using XPath.
>
> Is there any hope for me? Could I sneak some kind of function into the
> CSS that oXygen uses to configure the pick lists, and achieve this,
> using XPath?
>
> Regards, Wendell
>