Description Ben Margolis 2010-07-20 16:47:47 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.6

Background:  Eclipse dynamic content lets you replace a tag with a blank tag:  

from <p id="old">hello</p> 

to <p id="blank"/> or to <anchor id="blank"/>.

This replacement could be problematic; first, because someone might add the blank <p/> without caring about the effect on the formatting of the page; and second, because a likely use would be to always use a replacement tag with the same ID. (You've stored your "blank" tag in one file, and you use it over and over again.)  

Given that the dynamically updated HTML is an input to a print function, it could be an input to any other code.  Couldn't the duplicate IDs be problematic?

If only for elegance, Eclipse should allow deletion of tags, not just a replacement with other tags.  No such capability is now available, and no existing usage will break.

You might say, "If you are going to delete content directly, why not allow substitution of content directly, instead of through a wiring file"?  That change doesn't seem so important, and the wiring file provides indirection, which is often characteristic of a good design.

Reproducible: Always