There We Go!

[Curtis Clifton]

Mark,

On Dec 10, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

> To give you an idea about how I feel about the styles, I would pay the 
> price gladly for OO3 Pro if it *took out* the styles completely and 
> gave me a way of *naming* a relatively small number of elements that 
> were tagged as such in an available XML output file. Named elements 
> and hierarchy are more than sufficient (for my needs) to be able to 
> generate the different kinds of output I might need

I'm curious about this.  Would a pop-up list column suffice to tag your 
elements?  If I recall correctly, XSLT could select elements based on 
the XML-encoded value of the pop-up "tag".  One could even write 
applescripts to set the tag value of the currently selected row using 
hot-keys.

One other comment on the styles issue: one of my favorite features in 
OO3 is the ability to _clear_ styles easily.  (I suppose this is in the 
OO3 basic version also.)  When pulling in text from various web sites, 
it's handy to be able to zap its formatting in one quick step.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton