2.4.6  Cursor Position Setting

A common view setting for editing applications is the position where the text cursor was while saving the document. For WYSIWYG applications, this usually will be a position within a paragraph only. For applications that provide an XML based view of the document, the cursor position could be also between arbitrary elements, or even within tags.

To represent a text cursor position within a document, a processing instruction with PITarget opendocument (see �2.6 of [XML1.0]) should be used. The name of the cursor position processing instruction, cursor-position, shall follow the PITarget opendocument. The processing instruction may have arbitrary application specific attributes, for instance to connect the cursor position with a certain view of the document, where the views themselves are specified as application specific settings. The syntax for these attributes shall be the same as for attributes within XML start tags.

Where a text cursor position is not sufficient to recreate a document view, applications may use arbitrary document specific settings in addition to the cursor position processing instruction. They may also use arbitrary document specific settings if the cursor position is not a text cursor position, but for instance a selection of drawing objects.

Example: cursor position processing instruction

<text:p>This is<?opendocument cursor-position view-id="view1"?> an example.</text:p>