Vacuum definitions function for DataTypeTemplates

[danyill]

This is a feature request.

It would be useful to have a "vacuum definitions" function to remove unused LNodeTypes or DOTypes, DATypes or unused Enums in the DataTypeTemplates section. This is the kind of thing that other XML editing software (e.g. Inkscape) has.

I think this could usefully be part of the Templates section or it could be an additional menu item (although this is growing quickly and I guess we can't just keep adding menu items for forever...).

Even just for working on open-scd constructing a test case is more laborious than necessary even when I have the right starting material because I wish to keep a "simple" test file with as little extraneous data as possible. Currently, I manually edit and modify the types.

I like the name "Vacuum definitions" but "Remove unlinked types" would be more correct 😉

[JakobVogelsang]

Thanks for this issue. This is an interesting one that I did not have on screen. It fits very nicely with another feature wish #290 posted by @BurTah00. I would love to combine those in a menu type plug-in that I would call something like clean up. When clicking on the menu button, a dialog opens where the user selects the type of clean-up. Your wish would be one of those. I don't think we need to be complete from the beginning as it can grow but start with the two issues , this one and #290.

[JakobVogelsang]

@danyill would you say we can close this?

[danyill]

Yes. Soon I will have a PR to improve the current state.