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> -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM > > I have had a look at a few editors now. > > One thing that (at least the ones I have looked at so for) is common in > them > is the XMl Notepad look - i.e. A line with a couple of tags and space to > insert your text. > > To me it seems that this is pretty much the only way you could do this, > but > feedback I have had from people not knowledgeble about XML is that they > don't consider them serious editors (although I happily work with them). > > What other methods do/are XML editors using to make it very much easier > for > users. I imagine some intelligent package which knew where you were in a > particular document and, working with a DTD, could provide you with a list > of possible tags which could be applied and relevent attributes (if these > apply). Of course the DTD would have to be provided as a template for the > user (as would any style sheets). > > What would constitute my perfect XML editor would be an extension of the ideas/base provided by XED. It's a really simple text editor, following the CUA key guidlines (no learning emacs keystrokes, or hacking lisp to reconfigure all your keys!). When you type "<" it assumes you're entering a tag (unless you hit "<" again, in which case it types < for you), and provides a drop down list of optional tags, as you type the first letters in the tag it uses that abbreviation to minimise the list of possibles, until you're happy with the tag (either by selecting from the menu, or typing ">", or starting to fill in attributes). Currently XED doesn't use a DTD, but if it did I think it would be a killer editor. For XML proffesionals anyway - maybe not for first time users. But after a few goes I think anyone could easily get the hang of using this. I'm thinking of coding something simple like this in Perl/Tk (I know people would probably prefer Java, but it won't come from me), so if anyone's interested in this sort of thing, available under the GNU GPL, let me know, and we'll see if maybe we can collaborate. Matt. 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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