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December 3, 2013 at 9:51 pmThe settings in the CTM file that make an element appear like an image (which is why you are seeing the red X) are set in the
If you want the element to display as an image, and have the image display you must configure the “Source-Attribute”. That tells XMetaL Author which attribute points to a file path. The XML source file must also have a valid path set as the value for that attribute. With these things in place XMetaL Author will automatically render any of the natively supported bitmap image types.
If you do not want the element to display as an image then you will need to remove those CTM settings. In this case, if the element is defined as “empty” in the DTD or Schema then a blue diamond will be displayed (this gives you something to select when viewing the document in Normal view).