Re: Question about extending the SimpleDocument to allow the addition of class attributes.

>
> Hi,
>
> Can someone help?  I was hoping to be able to extend the (standard) Rich
> editor that you see with the SimpleDocument part type to allow the saving of
> class and id attributes.
>
> At the moment, if you create a new SimpleDocument and click on the <> icon
> to the right, you're allowed to freely enter xhtml markup.  Unfortunately,
> if you try and add class attributes to, say, p, h[x], or a tags, these
> classes are all "stripped" from the body content as the document is saved.
> So, in this view:
>
> <p class="red">red</p>
>
> becomes:
>
> <p>red</p>
>
> After the document has been saved and re-opened for editing.
>
> I've looked around found this page in the docs
> (http://www.daisycms.org/daisydocs-2_1/374-cd/499-cd.html)
>
> and it suggests that you can create a file called variables.xml containing
> something like this:
> <variables>
>
>  <variableSources>
>    <variableDocument id="6-DSY"/>
>  </variableSources>
>
>  <variablesInAttributes allAttributes="false">
>    <element name="a" attributes="class, id"/>
>    <element name="span" attributes="class, id"/>
>    <element name="p" attributes="class, id"/>
>    <element name="h3" attributes="class, id"/>
>  </variablesInAttributes>
>
> </variables>
>
> Although this still seems to strip out the class attributes once the doc (in
> this case "6-DSY")  is saved.
>
> So my 2 questions are: 1. is the variables.xml approach the way to do this?
> Or is there another way (from reading the docs, is sounded more like
> variables.xml was supposed to resolve specific values, not allow the use of
> extra attributes).
>
> 2. If this is the right approach, what else might I need to do if I want to
> ensure class attributes aren't being deleted on save?
>
> Also, is there any way to apply rules for all documents in the wiki?  The
> example seemed to suggest that you need to apply those rules to specific
> documents (e.g. 6-DSY).  Would there be a way to Extend the SimpleDocument
> editor to allow someone to write some rich text, then go to the markup view
> and add some class attributes in and save them knowing they will be
> preserved?
>
> Thanks in advance for any info/advice.
>
> A
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