1.3. Configuring the node path bar to display the value of some attributes

The "Customize" item of the contextual menu of the “file icon” found at the beginning of the node path bar

displays the following dialog box:

This dialog box may be used to configure the node path bar to make it display one or more attribute values after some element names. XHTML example: html > body > pre#example.fancy.line-numbers > code. Character "#" is used to prefix the value of attribute id. Character "." is used to prefix the tokens comprising the value of attribute class.

Click Add to specify an attribute to be displayed by the node path bar. Click Edit to change selected attribute specification. Click Remove to delete selected attribute specification.

Clicking Add or Edit displays the following attribute specification editor:

Display the following attribute

Check this checkbox to make the node path bar display specified attribute.

Note that the contextual menu of the “file icon” found at the beginning of the node path bar contains a number of checkboxes letting the user quickly switch an attribute from visible to hidden and the other way round.

Name

The name of the attribute to be displayed.

Parent element matches

An XPath pattern matching the parent element of the attribute to be displayed. Leave field empty to specify: any parent element.

This attributes contains a list of tokens.

Check this checkbox to specify that the attribute contains a list of tokens. When this is the case, the node path bar splits this list and displays each token preceded by the character specified using the combobox below.

Prepend the following character to the attribute value

Specifies the character to be prepended to the attribute value.