4.1.1. Editing the document text

To edit the text of a document, you place the insertion cursor at the desired location in your document. You may then insert characters by typing or delete characters by pressing the Delete or Backspace keys.

The DTD of your document defines whether an element can contain textual data. If you try to insert text into an element that does not allow text to occur or outside of the document element, epcEdit will refuse to insert the text and display an error message in the status line.

The context field (see What is on the screen) in the status line at the bottom of epcEdit's document window provides information about the current location of the insertion cursor. This field tells you what type of data is allowed at the location of the insertion cursor . For example, the context field displays mixed if the insertion cursor is located in a element with mixed content, i.e. within an element that allows the occurrence of text or markup.

You can select a portion of the text with the mouse by holding down the left mouse button while moving the mouse to the end of the region that is to be selected. If you select text with the mouse and the mouse cursor passes over the start or end tag of an element, the selection is extended to cover the complete element.

You can select a region of text with the arrow keys by holding down the Shift key.

If you press a character key while text is selected, the selected text is removed and replaced by the character that you have entered. If you click a mouse button outside of the selected region or press an arrow key without holding the Shift key, the selected region becomes unselected.