Hi,

This drove me nuts to figure out, but here's what's happening.

First, dropdown boxes work for DTD's, but not for schemas. As stated here "Buffers which have an associated DTD are validated for errors, and completion popups are shown for elements, attributes, and entities." while "Buffers which have an associated schema are validated for errors, and completion popups are shown for elements and entities."

What makes the situation really confusing, though, is that dropdowns work for the xsd schema, which makes it seem that there is a way to get them to work for schemas. But, what's actually happening is that "for XML docs that have a XML schema tied to them - completions
are hard coded into the XML plugin. XSD completion was hard
coded (by me), so if you are building a XML Schema completion is there." (from this 2002 email).

If you download the plugin source code you can find the hard coded completion files at 'XML\xml\completion'. I haven't figured out the details yet, but I'm sure one could add their own completion data here.

Good luck.

-J

You might try the XML plugin. I'm not quite sure which drop down you're getting, it could be jEdit's completion popup or another plugin's completion popup (like TextAutoComplete).

But, if it's XML related, your best bet would be to check out the XML plugin.

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I forgot to mention: I *am* using the XML plugin, and I was referring to its edit tag dialog. In that dialog jEdit sometimes presents a list of possible attribute values, and I want to know how to achieve this with my own schema.