Re: [xml-dev] Taking a cue from Microsoft Word

[George Cristian Bina <george@oxygenxml.com>]

Hi,

The second part already works in a similar way in oXygen, for example, 
if you have an element not present in the schema then
- you can invoke the content completion inside that (CTRL+Space) and 
oXygen will show the available elements, then selecting one of the valid 
proposals will get that element replaced with the valid one
- you can use the contextual menu (right click) then select 
Refactoring->Rename element and choose the one you want to replace the 
invalid element
http://screencast.com/t/IFYQvLt0

I am not sure about the first case... in general when someone creates a 
document the schema is not under development at that point or that user 
has no authority to change the schema. There is also no intermediate 
level, like a local dictionary, where you can add local, user specific 
element definitions.
The closest you get now in oXygen is to invoke the contextual menu->Show 
definition action (or CTRL+Click or CMD+Click on the parent element) to 
go to the definition of that element in the schema and then add the new 
element there. If there will be enough interest for this then I think we 
can add a refactoring action that can be triggered from an invalid 
element to add a definition of that element to the associated schema or DTD.

Best Regards,
George
--
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 12/7/13, 3:39 PM, James Fuller wrote:
> I would have thought OxygenXML has the extension mechanisms to build
> such a feature.
>
> Jim Fuller
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com
> <mailto:ihe.onwuka@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     OK this is a lazy response but here goes anyway.
>
>     MS Word's "intelligent" capability probably emanates from a
>     probabilistic analysis performed on a large corpus of data from
>     which it computes the most likely thing that was intended.
>
>     Do you have such a corpus and such a model for your schema?
>
>
>
>
>     On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Costello, Roger L.
>     <costello@mitre.org <mailto:costello@mitre.org>> wrote:
>
>         Hi Folks,
>
>         Today I opened Microsoft Word and typed a document.
>
>         In the course of typing the document I used a word that MS Word
>         did not understand. Word put a red squiggly line under it. I
>         right-mouse clicked on the word and selected "Add to
>         Dictionary." From that point on Word recognized that new word.
>         Also in the course of typing my document I misspelled a word. I
>         right-mouse clicked on the misspelled word and MS Word presented
>         to me a list of possible words from which I selected the
>         correctly spelled word.
>
>         Wow!
>
>         MS Word is an intelligent system: through my interaction it
>         continually expands its knowledge.
>
>         That is a fantastic thing.
>
>         Imagine a similar capability in an XML editor. The editor
>         understands my XML vocabulary: it has an XML Schema. I type my
>         XML document. When I use an element that the editor does not
>         understand it puts a red squiggly line under it. I right-mouse
>         click on it and select "Add to XML Schema" which results in
>         modifying the XML Schema with the new element. When I err, the
>         editor underlines the incorrect element with a red squiggly
>         line. I right-mouse click on the erroneous element and the
>         editor shows me a list of possible correct elements from which I
>         select one.
>
>         That would be neat.
>
>         /Roger
>
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