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Study DTD: very helpful XML in a Nutshell - Chapter 3. Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
Study XLink: XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0
Design the DTD: based on menubar.dtd
Check the validity: all context menus should pass xmllint --valid

ContextMenu DTD

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<!ELEMENT contextmenu:contextmenu (contextmenu:popupmenu)>
<!ATTLIST contextmenu:contextmenu
    xmlns:contextmenu   CDATA #FIXED "http://openoffice.org/2001/contextmenu"
    xmlns:xlink         CDATA #FIXED "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">

<!ELEMENT contextmenu:popupmenu (contextmenu:menuitem | contextmenu:menuseparator | contextmenu:menu)*>

<!ELEMENT contextmenu:menu (contextmenu:popupmenu)>
<!ATTLIST contextmenu:menu
    xlink:href  CDATA #REQUIRED
    contextmenu:helpid CDATA #IMPLIED
    contextmenu:label  CDATA #IMPLIED
    contextmenu:style  CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT contextmenu:menuitem  EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST contextmenu:menuitem
    xlink:href  CDATA #REQUIRED
    contextmenu:helpid CDATA #IMPLIED
    contextmenu:label  CDATA #IMPLIED
    contextmenu:style  CDATA #IMPLIED>

<!ELEMENT contextmenu:menuseparator  EMPTY>

for the attribute holding the command URL we do not follow menubar.dtd (it uses menu:id), we follow the toolbar.dtd and statusbar.dtd where the UNO command URL is stored in a locator attribute (xlink:href)

while validating the XML files against the DTD, we found that OOo statusbars and menubars do not pass the test:
- in statusbar.dtd, the attribute statusbar:helpid is missing
- in menubar.dtd
  - the attribute menu:style is missing
  - the element menu:menu is defined to have only one child element of type menu:menupopup, but this fails, for example, in Writer's menubar.xml with <menu:menu menu:id=".uno:ScriptOrganizer"/>

Menu Item Style

The attribute contextmenu:style is defined as unparsed character data. It may contain one or more of the following styles:

text (corresponds to <idlml>com.sun.star.ui.ItemStyle:TEXT</idlml>)
image (corresponds to <idlml>com.sun.star.ui.ItemStyle:ICON</idlml>)
radio (corresponds to <idlml>com.sun.star.ui.ItemStyle:RADIO_CHECK</idlml>)

Two ore more styles must be combined with a plus sign, like "text+image+radio" (although the MenuBar reader handles this, it does not seem to be used in any XML file; the only style explicitly indicated is "radio".

Examples

sc

RID_POPUP_EDIT

The following is the XML version of the Menu structure described in the resource file sc/source/ui/src/popup.src.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE contextmenu:contextmenu SYSTEM "contextmenu.dtd">
<contextmenu:contextmenu xmlns:contextmenu="http://openoffice.org/2001/contextmenu" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <contextmenu:popupmenu>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ResetAttributes"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <!-- Menu item controlled by PopupMenuController are NOT treated special
                see in Writer menubar:
                <menu:menuitem menu:id=".uno:SetLanguageSelectionMenu"/>
                <menu:menuitem menu:id=".uno:SetLanguageParagraphMenu"/>
                <menu:menuitem menu:id=".uno:SetLanguageAllTextMenu"/>
        -->
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:CharFontName"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:FontHeight"/>
        <!-- PROBLEM: submenus usually have no command URL
             RID_MN_FORMAT_STYLE has no UNO command URL of course
        -->
        <contextmenu:menu xlink:href=".uno:CellTextStyleMenu" > <!-- fictitious, but à la Writer -->
            <contextmenu:popupmenu>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Bold"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Italic"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Overline"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Underline"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:UnderlineDouble"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Strikeout"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Shadowed"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:OutlineFont"/>
                <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:SuperScript"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:SubScript"/>
            </contextmenu:popupmenu>
        </contextmenu:menu>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:FontDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:OpenHyperlinkOnCursor"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <!-- clipboard functions were added by the SfxPopupMenuManager -->
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Cut"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Copy"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Paste"/>
    </contextmenu:popupmenu>
</contextmenu:contextmenu>

RID_POPUP_CELLS

The following is the XLM version of the Menu structure defined in the resource file sc/source/ui/src/popup.src.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE contextmenu:contextmenu SYSTEM "contextmenu.dtd">
<contextmenu:contextmenu xmlns:contextmenu="http://openoffice.org/2001/contextmenu" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <contextmenu:popupmenu>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ResetAttributes"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:FormatCellDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:InsertCellsRight"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:DeleteCell"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Delete"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:InsertAnnotation"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:DeleteNote"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:NoteVisible"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Cut"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Copy"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Paste"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:PasteSpecial"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:DataSelect"/>
    </contextmenu:popupmenu>
</contextmenu:contextmenu>

sw

MN_TEXT_POPUPMENU

The following is the XML version of the Menu structure defined in the resource file sw/source/ui/app/mn.src (and many other files it includes).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE contextmenu:contextmenu SYSTEM "contextmenu.dtd">
<contextmenu:contextmenu xmlns:contextmenu="http://openoffice.org/2001/contextmenu" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
    <contextmenu:popupmenu>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ResetAttributes"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:NumberingStart"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ContinueNumbering"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:IncrementLevel"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:DecrementLevel"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:CharFontName"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:FontHeight"/>
        <contextmenu:menu xlink:href=".uno:StyleMenu">
            <contextmenu:popupmenu>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Bold"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Italic"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Overline"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Underline"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Strikeout"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Shadowed"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:OutlineFont"/>
                <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:SuperScript"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:SubScript"/>
            </contextmenu:popupmenu>
        </contextmenu:menu>
        <contextmenu:menu xlink:href=".uno:AlignTextMenu">
            <contextmenu:popupmenu>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:LeftPara" contextmenu:style="radio"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:RightPara" contextmenu:style="radio"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:CenterPara" contextmenu:style="radio"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:JustifyPara" contextmenu:style="radio"/>
            </contextmenu:popupmenu>
        </contextmenu:menu>
        <contextmenu:menu xlink:href=".uno:LineSpacingMenu">
            <contextmenu:popupmenu>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:SpacePara1" contextmenu:style="radio"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:SpacePara15" contextmenu:style="radio"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:SpacePara2" contextmenu:style="radio"/>
            </contextmenu:popupmenu>
        </contextmenu:menu>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:FontDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ParagraphDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:PageDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:BulletsAndNumberingDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menu xlink:href=".uno:TransliterateMenu">
            <contextmenu:popupmenu>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToSentenceCase"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToLower"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToUpper"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToTitleCase"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToToggleCase"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToHalfWidth"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToFullWidth"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToHiragana"/>
                <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ChangeCaseToKatakana"/>
            </contextmenu:popupmenu>
        </contextmenu:menu>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:UpdateCurIndex"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:EditCurIndex"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:RemoveTableOf"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:FieldDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:EditFootnote"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:IndexEntryDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:AuthoritiesEntryDialog"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:AcceptTracedChange"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:RejectTracedChange"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:EditStyle"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:OpenHyperlinkOnCursor"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:EditHyperlink"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:CopyHyperlinkLocation"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:RemoveHyperlink"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:OpenSmartTagMenuOnCursor"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <!-- Thesaurus should have its own controller -->
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:ThesaurusFromContext"/>
        <contextmenu:menuseparator/>
        <!-- clipboard functions were added by the SfxPopupMenuManager -->
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Cut"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Copy"/>
        <contextmenu:menuitem xlink:href=".uno:Paste"/>
    </contextmenu:popupmenu>
</contextmenu:contextmenu>

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Tasks

ContextMenu DTD

Menu Item Style

Examples

sc

RID_POPUP_EDIT

RID_POPUP_CELLS

sw

MN_TEXT_POPUPMENU

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