[oXygen-user] Separate colour for external parsed entity 'tags' in 'Author' mode?

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)]

Hi Tony,

One thing I don't understand is this remark:

>  I was expecting that entities such as '>' would also change colour, but I wasn't expecting comments to turn yellow as well.

The selector I gave you should not influence the appearance of XML 
comments in any way. XML comments have always been shown with yellow 
background and green foreground. If I have not properly understood this, 
please send us a screenshot.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 1/27/2015 2:51 PM, Tony Graham wrote:
> On 20/01/15 12:30, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)  wrote:
>> If you have access to the CSS used to render the XML in the Author
>> visual editing mode, in the CSS after all the imports you can define
>> this namespace:
>>
>>> @namespace oxy "http://www.oxygenxml.com/extensions/author";
>>
>> and then add this extra selector to it:
>>
>>> oxy|entity {
>>>     display:-oxy-morph !important;
>>>     -oxy-display-tags: default !important;
>>>     -oxy-tags-background-color:yellow !important;
>>>     -oxy-tags-color:green !important;
>>> }
>
> That works well, thank you.  I was expecting that entities such as
> '&gt;' would also change colour, but I wasn't expecting comments to turn
> yellow as well.
>
>> By the way for the next Oxygen version (version 17) we changed the
>> default display of entity references in the Author visual editing mode
>> to hide the start and end tags completely for them, something like:
>>
>>> -oxy-display-tags: none !important;
>>
>> What do you think of the change we plan to make? It makes entity
>> references look more seamlessly embedded in the content.
>
> I've been thinking about this since your email.  Since I'm not
> tag-averse, I'd probably change/keep the CSS to make them visible.
>
> As it is, because I have CSS that sets the background colour for some
> elements, every so often I find myself wondering why I can't edit some
> text and it's because the text is in an external reference but I can't
> see the usual grey background that indicates that it is external text.
>
> The other conceptual difficulty that I haven't actually run into yet is
> nested entities, particularly if an entity reference is the last thing
> in an element that is the last thing in its own external parsed entity.
>
> If you assume all the right entity declarations for these files:
>
> a.xml:
> ----
> <entities>end?</entities>
> ----
>
> b.xml
> ----
> <the><nested>&a.xml;</nested></the>
> ----
>
> c.xml
> ----
> <where><do>&b.xml</do></where>
> ----
>
> then the Author mode view of 'c.xml' is something like:
>
> ----
> <where><do><the><nested><entities>end?</entities></nested></the></do></where>
>
> ----
>
> In principle, I'd like to know where the entities end, but maybe it's
> sufficient that I have the option of changing the CSS so I can see the
> 'tags' for the starts and ends of the entities.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Tony Graham.