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Re: Readable syntaxes (was: XUL Compact Syntax Study Now Onli

• To: Jim Rankin <jimbokun_lists@m...>, bob@w...
• Subject: Re: Readable syntaxes (was: XUL Compact Syntax Study Now Online)
• From: Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...>
• Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:05:17 +0100
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At 17:47 22/04/2004, Jim Rankin wrote:

>I think a good outline based XML editor can create a nice editing 
>environment for people like me who want to delegate how the document 
>should look to a program that's good at doing that.  I'm pretty sure I'm 
>not the only one.
>
>Also, any tool will have limits.  There will be times when you want to do 
>things with the data that the person who wrote the tool didn't envision, 
>and then having a human readable text format like XML will be a big plus.

The example that tripped me up recently.
A 'tagless' form of XML, editing docbook.
I wanted to close off about 3 levels of tags, say para sect2 sect1
and create a new sect1.
Because the end tags weren't there to get my cursor in-between
I just couldn't do what I wanted. Nor could I find any way to
achieve that.

regards DaveP

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