Oxygen XML Author plugin 13.2.0

Authoring in the Visual Editor | 83Clicking a cell in the Value column starts editing the value of the attribute from the selected row. If the possible valuesof the attribute are specified as list in the schema associated with the edited document, the Value column works as acombo box where you can select one of the possible values to be inserted in the document.The attributes table is sortable by clicking the Attribute column header. Thus the table contents can be sorted:• by attribute name in ascending order;• by attribute name in descending order;• custom order, where the used attributes are displayed at the beginning of the table sorted in ascending order, followedby the rest of the allowed elements sorted in ascending order.Figure 41: The Attributes ViewA combo box located in the upper part of the view allows you to edit the attributes of the ancestors of the current element.The following actions may be available in the contextual menu:• Add - allows you to insert a new attribute. Adding an attribute that is not in the list of all defined attributes is notpossible when the Allow only insertion of valid elements and attributes schema aware option is enabled.• Set empty value - Specifies the current attribute value as empty.• Remove - Removes the attribute (action available only if the attribute is specified). You can invoke this action bypressing the (Delete) or (Backspace) keys.The attributes of an element can be edited in place in the editor panel by pressing the shortcut (Alt + Enter) which popsup a small window with the same content of the Attributes view. In the initial form of the popup, only the two textfields Name and Value are displayed, with the list of all the possible attributes being collapsed.Figure 42: Edit attributes in place