Structural Editing
Arbortext Editor guides you in creating a document using the structure defined by a document type. Element tags make up the structure of your document. When you edit the structure, you are editing the tags rather than the text. Examples of structural editing are:
• Splitting or joining the same structural elements. For example, you may want to join two list elements to make one list because the items in the lists are related. Or you may want to split a paragraph into two paragraphs, each surrounded by a pair of paragraph tags.
• Changing tags from one type of document component to another. This can change how the tag content is presented because the content has been assigned to a different structural component (for example, when you are changing a bulleted list to a numbered list).
• Collapsing and hiding the content of document tags. This “collapsing” is useful for cutting and pasting large sections of text and tags or hiding specific tag content such as editorial comments or alternate versions of text.
Arbortext Editor provides an editing tool, the Document Type Viewer, for creating a structurally correct document. It has a window to display the tag structure of your document type. You can use the Document Type Viewer to locate the next place in your document where a document component is valid, and to insert the component tags at that point.