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Very cool! I wish it worked with arbitrary schemas, I would love to have a nice tool like this when I get stuck dealing with SOAP.



Hi, it (sort of!) already does support arbitrary schemas, or were you meaning that you want to be able to give it a schema through the interface (URL/file upload)? It doesn't currently support the later, although there's no reason why it couldn't.

Currently if you wish to add a schema just needs a thin wrapper where you tell it the elements that are to be displayed as inline (rather than block).

Specifically, an .RNG or .XSD file just needs a tiny reference to a schema family: https://github.com/holloway/doctored/blob/master/doctored/sc...

And that config file is a pointer to these schema families https://github.com/holloway/doctored/blob/master/doctored/js... that name the inline/block config.


In the demo, how does one append another chapter?


tldr; I'm going to allow double <enter>, and I'm going to add a [+] to the top-left of every block but that's not done yet and in the meantime you'll have to edit the XML ('view source') to make those kind of changes.

Long answer: Currently hitting <enter> clones the current block element but when there are block elements within block elements (such as chapter > para) there's no way to know what <enter> should mean. Other software (some wordprocessors) use double <enter> to step up a level, and I guess I'll support that. For UI reasons though I think that I'll also add a [+] button to the top-left of block elements (above the vertical label, above the nodeName). And I should also support pasting XML more (it kind of works right now but it needs more work).

I'll be a bit busy for the next week on a live split-view of the XML, but after that I'll work on cloning nesting block elements. I'll say when it's done on @hollowaynz -- cheers :)


Just added a [+] to each block element

http://holloway.github.io/doctored/




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