Enforcing the generation of xml:id attributes in DocBook content

[dcramer]

In the DocBook framework, the menu DocBook5->ID Options... allows the user to specify a pattern to use for automatically adding xml:id attributes to a specified list of elements. I would like to control these settings for our users in our customization of that framework. It appears that the preferences related to this are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/com.oxygenxml/oxyOptionsSa<version>.xml (see code sample below).

What would be the correct way to define these ahead of time in the framework so that my settings are pre-defined? I'll then remove ID Options... from the menu so they have no choice but to do my bidding, bwahahaha...

Regards,
David

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<serialized version="18.1" xml:space="preserve">

        <serializableOrderedMap>

                <entry>

                        <String>DocBook.5.document.type.auto.generate.id.elements.active</String>

                        <String>true</String>

                </entry>

                <entry>

                        <String>DocBook.5.document.type.filter.ids.on.copy</String>

                        <String>true</String>

                </entry>

                <entry>

                        <String>DocBook.5.document.type.generate.id.for.elements</String>

                        <String>section,chapter,preface,table,appendix,figure,informalfigure,</String>

                </entry>

                <entry>

                        <String>DocBook.5.document.type.generate.ids.pattern</String>

                        <String>${localName}-${uuid}</String>

                </entry>

[Radu]

Hi David,

The default values for that dialog's settings reside in the file OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\docbook\resources\idGenerationDefaultOptionsDB5.xml.
If users manually change those settings in the dialog in any way indeed the settings will then be saved in the Oxygen general preferences XML document that you mentioned.

Regards,
Radu