Replacing nodes
Generally, when you insert a new element, XMLmind XML Editor
automatically creates for you the valid element having the simplest
content. For example, if you insert a note element in a
DocBook document, this note contains an empty
para.
In other cases, the simplest valid content is, well,
too simple to be useful. In such cases, XMLmind XML Editor is expected to
have been configured (by XMLmind engineers or by third-party consultants)
to insert the most commonly used valid content. For example, if
you insert a figure element in a DocBook document, this
figure contains an imagedata element.
Now let's
suppose you don't want the newly inserted note to contain a
paragraph. Instead, you want it to contain an itemizedlist
element. Also, you don't want the newly inserted figure to
contain an image. You want it to contain a programlisting
element.
You have learned that you can select the para
contained in the note, insert after it an itemizedlist,
then delete the unwanted para. (In that order, because the
DocBook schema, hence XMLmind XML Editor, will not allow a note
to become empty.)
In fact, the 
Replace command has been designed to do
exactly that, but in a single step. The Replace command allows to
replace the selected nodes by an element or by a text node (if allowed by
the schema, of course). Like all the other generic editing commands, this
command is found in in the Edit tool, in the Edit menu and
in the popup menu displayed when you right-click in the document
view.
