[oXygen-user] DITA Feature Request -- Insert href to files

[Seraphim Larsen]

Great, thanks!

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Sorin Ristache <> wrote:

> Thank you for your suggestions. In the next version of Oxygen each of the
> Link actions available on the toolbar with custom actions for the DITA topic
> document type (insert a cross reference - xref, a file reference, a web link
> or a related link) will allow choosing a file or an ID from a file as the
> target of the reference with a dialog in which the target file can be
> selected with the help of a file chooser. We will consider also your two
> suggestions for inserting such references by drag and drop or by selecting
> the target element and pasting the id at the insertion point.
>
>
> Thank you for your suggestions,
> Sorin
>
>
> Seraphim Larsen wrote:
>
>> It would be nice to have a better method for inserting the hrefs for
>> <xref>, <link>, <conref>, and <image>.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the current feature set allows you to insert these
>> elements, but then you need to hand-code the href.
>>
>> Would be nice to have a dialog box that allows you to select the target
>> file -- for example, something like the way you can currently insert
>> conrefs.
>>
>> Even nicer, it would be great to be able to drag-and-drop from the Project
>> pane.  For example, drag a topic file, and drop into an open DITA file (in
>> Text or Author view), and an xref is inserted.   Ctrl-drag, and a Related
>> Link is inserted.   Drag a graphic, and an <image> element is inserted, with
>> the href already correctly defined.
>>
>> To get an xref to a particular element, it would be nice to have a feature
>> something like this:
>>
>>    * Select the target element
>>    * Select menu item "Create xref to target element", which results in
>>      the following:
>>          o If the selected element has no id attribute, an id attribute
>>            is created, or a dialog box opens, telling the user to
>>            specify the id attribute
>>          o The clipboard is then populated with the <xref> element with
>>            the href already correctly defined.
>>          o An optional dialog box could appear, telling the user that
>>            the xref has been formed and is on the clipboard
>>    * You then go to the place where you want to put the xref, and just
>>      paste it in.          o Oxygen should adjust the syntax of the href,
>> depending on
>>            where the user pastes it in.  This would not just be a
>>            simple copy-paste, but would require some additional
>>            intelligence from Oxygen:
>>                + If the xref is pointing to content in the same file,
>>                  the following syntax is used (as per the DITA Language
>>                  Spec
>>                  <
>> http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/langspec/langref/xref.html#xref__attrs
>> >):
>>                       href="#topicID"
>>                       href="#topicID/elemID
>>                + If the xref target is in a different file:
>>                       href="filename.dita#topicID"
>>                       href="fname.dita#topicID/elemID"
>>
>> It would be nice to have similar copy/paste functionality for conrefs.
>> Much easier than navigating through a dialog box.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Seraphim
>>
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