All I wanted was to have all of the tags I’ve used so far in a project (in multiple files) at my disposal in drop-down lists in oXygen.
Problem is, while oXygen is great at learning all of the elements and their attributes you’ve used so far in a single document, this knowledge cannot be easily shared between documents.
Creating a DTD turns out to be impractical, because then I cannot easily add new elements to it.
The solution was, as usual, simple: with each new file I create, I include all of the previous files into it as entities. This way, oXygen sees all of the elements I’ve used thus far, and has no trouble learning new ones. When I’m done editing the newest file, the entities referring to other files are wiped.
This makes editing so much easier!
woohoo! congratulations!
Vika
Very glad you found an editor you like and does what you want.
BTW how do you decide to create an element for a textual feature you identify in your editing? How does your list grow?
Francois-
I create elements as needed, for now. I make them make sense in English, and try to remember the ones I’ve already used, so they’re not *totally* disparate if they don’t have to be. The list grows of its own accord, and once I have a critical mass, I can start making more systematic sense of it.