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Bug 122038

Summary:	[editor] Allow "Show Source Of Selected Element Only" mode for XML, DTD, ...
Product:	[WebTools] WTP Source Editing	Reporter:	Patrice Maldague <patrice.maldague>
Component:	wst.xml	Assignee:	Nitin Dahyabhai <thatnitind>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Nitin Dahyabhai <thatnitind>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	b.muskalla, for.work.things, nsand.dev
Version:	1.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	Future
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Patrice Maldague

2005-12-23 18:50:46 EST

The "Show Source Of Selected Element Only" mode (in Editor Presentation toolbar) does not work for XML, DTD, ...

Comment 1 Amy Wu

2006-01-04 12:06:50 EST

Interesting.  I thought the "Show Source of Selected Element Only" mode was only Java editor-specific.  Guess not.

Comment 2 Nitin Dahyabhai

2006-01-08 23:28:39 EST

While it may not be specific to the Java editor, I would think it has far less applicability given that the Selected Element is so much more granular in XML than in Java.

Comment 3 Patrice Maldague

2006-01-09 15:49:24 EST

I don't think it's Java editor-specific since it is defined as a retargetable action (see action org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.toggleShowSelectedElementOnly in org.eclipse.ui.workbench.texteditor plugin).

The behaviour I was thinking about is to show the content scoped by the selection range indicator (= the XML subtree rooted by the element selected in the outline), not just the tag and attributes of the selected element (which would not be very useful). In my opinion, it can really help to improve the "signal-to-noise ratio" when navigating big XML files via the outline.

Comment 4 Amy Wu

2008-02-04 12:58:07 EST

mass reassignment of my bugs to xml-inbox

Comment 5 Nitin Dahyabhai

2011-07-14 19:05:28 EDT

Resolving as won't fix.  The selected Node changes far more frequently in XML and my thoughts in comment 2 haven't changed.  We'd only show you the one node and its children, and then clicking on a child node would retarget the selection to just that one child.  It works for Java because it never gets down to the single statement level.