[oXygen-user] Outline view again

[Robert Leif]

Wendell et al.
I have seen RDF and presumably RDFa tables of contents (ToCs). There are two
extremes in the types of ToCs. 1) a manifest which just lists the component
files and their locations 2) A collection of hyperlinks, roles, and
relationships. I have been working on the latter and can send out a preprint
of a paper that I am completing. Most of the information and schemas can be
found at www.cytometryml.org. My own work is on measurements of cells. A
major problem-weakness in what I have done is that although, I have written
XML schemas, I cannot interface them with neither html5 nor xhtml5. html5
does not appear to be simple to extend.
Can your ToC include hyperlinks? Not the formatting of the text but
providing the capacity with a browser to move to a new web page?
Bob Leif
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Dear David,

It's not the same as being able to configure the outline view (which is an
intriguing idea), but one thing I have done is make a distinct CSS
stylesheet just for a ToC rendition of the document. Of course this gives
you all the flexibility of CSS including hiding things, and can be done
right away. Switching between two or more CSS renditions is a feature oXygen
has had for a while.

Additionally, in its CSS support, oXygen includes several extensions
including a 'foldable' property that allows a user to expand and collapse
arbitrary blocks of the document, while keeping certain element children
visible. So you can collapse/expand sections while keeping their titles in
view, for example.

Tailoring a user interface for the needs of users (each of whom is an
individual with personal quirks and preferences) is certainly an art. At
least one competitor to oXygen (which I haven't used in a while) allows the
outline view to be styled with its own CSS. While this is good as far as it
goes, it has a down side, in that it hides the straight unenhanced outline
view, which is also nice to have. Maybe what we need is not more
configuration of the outline view, but a way to view the same document with
two (or more) different CSS stylesheets in different windows (along with,
probably, the ability to harness their cursor positions together, or not).

Cheers,
Wendell

On 1/19/2012 10:43 AM, David Cramer wrote:
> Hi there,
> I think I've asked about the Outline view before and it seems to be 
> getting more useful, but feedback from writers is that it's still 
> exactly what they want.
>
> When editing a document, it is useful to have a "table of contents"
> view of the document next to the main authoring view that provides a 
> synoptic view of the document's organization. In oXygen, the Outline 
> view comes very close to providing this:
>
> Given a DocBook document if I filter on "chapter, section" then for 
> the typical document, I see just the chapters and sections, but the 
> results are a flat list. If I  deselect "Flat presentation mode of the 
> filtered results" then I have the indented tree view I expect BUT I 
> also see elements, PIs, etc that are preceding siblings of the 
> sections. For example:
>
> * chapter Overview of the Foo Server
>    * section Understanding the Foo Server Deployment
>      * title Some section title
>      * para Why am I seeing this para?
>      * para This is noise and clutter ipsum lorem
>    * section Foo Server Concepts
>
> Is there a configuration change I could make to eliminate the 
> preceding siblings of the section from the Outline view? If there's 
> not, could the behaviors of the outline view be adjusted to allow for 
> this use case?

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