Hide Children

Some nodes have many children, which are either not appropriate for display or clutter it up. This option prevents the display in the TOC of all CHILDREN of a given node type (GI) regardless of the depth of the tree and the content. Note that it does NOT hide the node (unless a node can contain its own GI). At present this is customised in start-up files (e.g. */local.tcl and routine GI::setHidden) but I plan to make this customisable after a DTD has been read in (e.g. in a 'Settings' page for any GI).

Some example where "Hide Children" is useful are where the children are best interpreted as switches in an event stream (e.g. HTML text) or where they relate to (say) numeric data whose display in the TOC is not valuable.

NOTE: For an unfamiliar DTD it is often useful to explore it without "Hide Children" first (using a variety of Depth settings in the TOC) and to find those nodes whose children irritate you.

NOTE: "Hide Children" only covers the TOC method of display. Other types of display (e.g. in Node subwindows and Event Streams) shouldn't be affected.

Peter Murray-Rust
April 1996