Content Completion helper panels

Information about the current element being edited are also available in the Model panel and Attributes panel, located on the left-hand side of the main window. The Model panel and the Attributes panel combined with the powerful Outliner provide spacial and insight information on the edited document.

 The Model panel

The Model panel presents the structure of the current edited tag and tag documentation defined as annotation in the schema of the current document.

 

Figure 4.23. The Model View

The Model View

The Model panel is comprised of:

 The Element Structure panel

The element structure panel shows the structure of the current edited or selected tag in a Tree format.

The information includes the name, model and attributes the currently edited tag may have. The allowed attributes are shown along with any restrictions they might possess.

 

Figure 4.24. The Element Structure panel

The Element Structure panel

 The Annotation panel

The Annotation panel shows the annotations that are present in the used schema for the currently edited or selected tag.

This information can be very useful to persons learning XML because it has small available definitions for each used tag.

 

Figure 4.25. The Annotation panel

The Annotation panel