[oXygen-user] SurroundWithFragmentOperation duplicates selected string

[Andreas Wagner]

Hi list,

In my oXygen Author mode framework, I want to offer an action to replace 
an abbreviation with its expanded form. To give a concrete example of 
one of our (TEI) files. Suppose I have a word like "accusatu." I select 
it, trigger my action, get asked what it should be replaced with and get 
(in code) this:

<choice><abbr>accusa.</abbr><expan>accusatus</expan></choice>

The thing is, when the selected string contains a character entity, say, 
"Jt&#x1ebd;", then the surrounding works okay, but the selected phrase 
is *repeated after* the inserted fragment, so that I get

<choice><abbr>Jt&#x1ebd;</abbr><expan>Item</expan></choice>Jt&#x1ebd;

This sometimes happens and sometimes it does not. With

<choice><abbr>int&#x1ebd;tiõis</abbr><expan>intentionis</expan></choice>

it has just worked fine.

Note that for directly entered chars like nõ -> non, I have never 
noticed this problem, only when I am using numeric character references. 
Then again, it's not clear to me which cases are problematic and if they 
are so always or not. (I think with the Item from the example above it 
happens always.) But I don't know what distinguishes this case from the 
second example.

(Also, from time to time I get errors because "The current context is 
read-only", which also seems to relate to the NCR entities involved and 
to how (far) I draw my selection.)


The xml fragment that the SurroundWithFragmentOperation is using is 
this:

<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><abbr></abbr><expan>${ask('Wie 
lautet die Expansion?', generic)}</expan></choice>


Has anyone experienced similar things or can help in some way?

Best,
Andreas


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