Usability/Documentation: Preferences/Default Schema Associat

[bpsm]

I'm generally a very happy user of oXygen, though I've just stumbled across a patch of poor usability which has made me rather grumpy. Please bear with me.

Dialog: Preferences/Default Schema Association

* Column namespace: (Documentation)

Supposing I want this association to be used when no namespace is declared. What do I do? Leave it blank? Write <NONE>, write <ANY> (even though that's not what I want) or do something else? The documentation of this feature is insufficient.

* Buttons:

I recently entered a number of very similar patterns (Associating a schema without a namespace with the 8 possible root elements of that schema). I accomplished this by first exporting the preferences, then hacking the resulting xml and then re-importing. A simple Duplicate button would have been very helpful.

* In-place Editing:

It would be convenient to be able to edit the values in the table in place. Failing that, you could use the yawning gulf at the bottom half of the window to show an edit view for the currently selected row.

* Yawning gulf at the bottom of the window

How about allowing the table to grow vertically to fill the available space?

* Column "Root local name": Documentation? RegEx? XPath?

What I was doing my repetitive data entry, I thought "gee, wouldn't it be nice if I could use a subset of XPath or a regular expression here, that would save me a lot of typing." Who knows, maybe I could have. Again, with the documentation!

Thanks
Ben

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

* Column namespace: (Documentation)
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The documentation of this feature is insufficient.

No namespace is like having an attribute xmlns="" so the Namespace column must contain the empty string (nothing between the quotes). We added this specification to the User Manual.

* Column "Root local name": Documentation? RegEx? XPath?
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Who knows, maybe I could have. Again, with the documentation!

The documentation does not specify the possibility to use regular expressions or XPath expressions in this column so they are not supported.

* In-place Editing:

It would be convenient to be able to edit the values in the table in place. Failing that, you could use the yawning gulf at the bottom half of the window to show an edit view for the currently selected row.

Normally for text field columns you enter in-place editing by a single click and for combo box columns you enter in-place editing by a double click. In the current form of the Default Schema Associations table you enter editing by a double click which opens the Edit dialog. So the user action for entering the editing mode is usual. And there is a problem with in-place editing: the Schema URI column could not benefit of the three buttons displayed in the Edit dialog for: macros, local file browsing and remote file browsing, which are really helpful.

* Buttons:

* Yawning gulf at the bottom of the window

Thank you for the suggestions.

Regards,
Sorin