Style rules matching custom attributes?

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At the risk of asking an “XY” question (about an attempted solution rather than the actual problem), can style rules match on the presence or value of custom data- attributes ?

Context:

I use definition lists (essentially a list of Term rows, each with some Definition children) and I wondered whether I could make definition list terms visually distinct in the editor with a style that matched the presence of something like a data-term="true" attribute value ?

Broader context:

I’m drafting a custom a Lua reader-writer pair for Bike ⇄ Pandoc traffic, and I’m writing Pandoc DefinitionList blocks out to Bike with term rows flagged by an attribute. (In the Bike editor I can add and view custom attributes with an extension or script, but I can’t yet detect their presence in styling – I may have missed a trick or two)

FWIW other custom attributes that might help me with fuller Bike ⇄ Pandoc round-tripping would include things in the region of:

  • data-table="true"
  • data-figure="true" (for captioned links to images)
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Ah … outline paths ? Perhaps I was looking in wrong place.

( was looking for attributes in the extension kit’s API for styles)

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Yes, this would be specified in the outline path in the editor style. Then open the outline you want to style in Bike, and the Bike > Outline Path Explorer to see the exact attribute names to query against. Then type a relative path to try to match. I think for the cases you mention these might be your paths:

.@figure = "true"
.@table = "true"
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