Display Element Content in Document Explorer in Studio Editor

Question

I would like to display "Name" values for each "Product" in a "STEP-ProductInformationTranslation" document. 
 I set up a relative XPath statement pointing to the description I would like to display ( ./Name/text() ) and I set the "Document Explorer" setting to "ShowElementContent". 
 But instead of showing me the text node extracted from the XML document, it shows me each time the word "Name". 
 In the Document Structure column on the other hand, everything works as expected. 
 I am wondering whether I did something wrong or whether there is a bug in the most recent version of Studio 2015?

Paul · Answer

Hi Frank,

Did this work with earlier versions? I have not tested but would not expect this to work. I think the only possibility, by design here, is the following:

- display the string content of the element you parse (<Product> in this case and not <Name>)
- display the name given to the structure information (Name in this case and not the Description)
- nothing at all

I don't believe any of the options are intended to do what you are looking for here.

Regards

Paul

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Frank Lempp · Answer

Hi Paul, 
 thanks for your reply. I was on the wrong track. The way to obtain the values I want, is to define parser rules for "Name" elements (translatable and non-translatable ones) and then it is possible to have the names displayed in the Document Explorer. And if I want to see both the hierarchy of products and the names, I need to enable "ShowElementContent" for both elements. 
 
 Regards 
 Frank

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Display Element Content in Document Explorer in Studio Editor