[oXygen-sdk] Styling content between two processing instructions

[oXygen XML Editor Support]

Hello,

I can see two possible solutions to this problem. The first one would be 
to use non-persistent highlights. The API to manage non-persistent 
highlight is found in 
ro.sync.ecss.extensions.api.highlights.AuthorHighlighter. You can get 
access to the highlighter instance by calling 
AuthorAccess.getEditorAccess().getHighlighter(). You'll have to manually 
add the a highlight for each dxml-merge-start PI and also remove them 
when needed.

The second solution would be to change a bit the processing instruction:

     <?dxml-merge-start text group="d2e150" mergeType="modify" ?>
     <?dxml-merge-end text group="d2e150"?>

into:

      <?oxy_custom_start type="dxml-merge-start" text group="d2e150" 
mergeType="modify" color="255,255,0" ?>
     <?oxy_custom_end text group="d2e150"?>

This way the PI will automatically be identified by Oxygen as a 
persistent highlight and you will also have in it all the information 
you need for custom processing.

Best regards,
Alex
--
Alex Jitianu
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 19-Dec-12 6:27 PM, Michael Anthony Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my last posting to this list, entitled "Request to enable 'form 
> based editing' from processing instructions", we set out our use of 
> processing instructions for merge conflict resolution. It would be 
> nice if we could highlight the content between two of our processing 
> instructions. So that the user could clearly see what 'content' was in 
> consideration.
>
> It may be possible to do this using AuthorPersistentHighlight, but 
> this appears to be linked with the <?oxy_custom_start?> and 
> <?oxy_custom_end?> processing instructions. We could use these, but it 
> would make our processing significantly more complicated (and our 
> format less succinct). Previous discussion on this topic on the oxygen 
> user mailing list, suggested that this was limitation of the 
> AuthorPersistentHighlight approach (at least at that time). Is there 
> anything that we have missed/new-developments that would allow 
> highlighting content between arbitrary processing instructions.
>
> Best regards,
> Anthony.
> -- 
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael Anthony Smith, DeltaXML Ltd "Michael Anthony Smith, DeltaXML 
> Ltd "Experts in Information Change""
> T: +44 1684 869035   E: anthony.smith at deltaxml.com 
> <mailto:anthony.smith at deltaxml.com> http://www.deltaxml.com 
> <http://www.deltaxml.com/>
> Registered in England 02528681 Reg. Office: Monsell House, WR8 0QN, UK
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> oXygen-sdk mailing list
> oXygen-sdk at oxygenxml.com
> http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-sdk

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.oxygenxml.com/pipermail/oxygen-sdk/attachments/20121220/ccfdf7e5/attachment.html>