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Re: xml editors

• To: Howard Katz <howardk@f...>
• Subject: Re: xml editors
• From: Toivo Lainevool <tlainevool@x...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:23:10 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Howard Katz wrote:

>I have a need for a very simple and lightweight editor in the windows world
>to do xhtml (and possibly other xml) authoring. My main need to be able to
>type freeform text, select it with the mouse, and then be able to type a
>pre-assigned keyboard combo (eg, ALT-someKey) to automatically enclose the
>selected text with a start and end tag corresponding to that keyboard combo.
>(Second choice would be a popup of all defined tag alternatives, the choice
>*not* being based on current context.) Similarly if I selected a block of
>tag-enclosed text (ie, element content), I'd like to be able to auto-enclose
>that block with tags of my own choosing as well.
>
>Anyone have any recommendations in that department?
>  
>
I would think any editor with a half-decent macro facility would be able 
to do this.  I use IntelliJ IDEA to do this type of thing all the time.

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Toivo Lainevool
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