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>There are no installation instructions because all you have to >do is unpack the zip file and run xed.exe. Thanks, it works now and I can't reproduce what I did wrong before. The effect was that a DOS window came up and then vanished. Some usability observations: - The help text is in a font that is too small for me to read comfortably - The notation for keystrokes is non-intuitive (e.g. M-<) although it is now explained - Right mouse click on selected text (as distinct from a selected element) doesn't have the expected behaviour (it causes some nearby element to be selected) - Pasting (Ctrl/V) when text is selected is an error, I would expect it to paste the clipboard contents over the selected text - I thought at first that clicking "preferences" had no effect, I discovered later it had brought up a window that was not visible because it was behind others - XED is not very helpful when you try to open a file that is not well-formed XML. (In my case a file I'm still investigating because some parsers accept it and others don't!) - The box below the menu bar looks very strange when it is not actually in use for editing attributes, element names, etc The following suggestions might be asking a bit much: - It would be nice to make (more?) use of the DTD - It would be nice if XED recognised that "Save As" to a different directory can destroy your relative URLs, e.g. the reference to the DTD - It would be nice to have a prompt list of standard entity names, e.g. é - One operation I found cumbersome is splitting an element such as a <P>paragraph</P> into two paragraphs. (The same would apply to combining two into one.) I don't know if this is common enought to warrant special treatment. I shall try using it for a bit (in preference to PFE) and see how I get on. Having said that, I don't spend much time editing XML as most of it is software-generated. I do prefer this approach, though, to the "tree" style editor. Mike Kay xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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