[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XML Editors - Word 2000??
Warning! Grumpy old fart rant follows! Read at your own risk! Paul Prescod <paul@p...> writes: > Steven Livingstone wrote: >> Anyway, I am looking for an Editor as easy to use as Word, but allows you to >> work with XML without modification !! > Who isn't? I am not. I don't find Word easy to use at all, and I certainly wouldn't want to edit XML with it. I *might* - were I in a good mood, and I am not - be able to see the point of it storing documents according to a fixed DTD with a separate style sheet reflecting the formatting, but for general XML documents? Rather not. > It has been tweaked and honed to make editing with that DTD for many > years. Now imagine you pop a document according to your vocabulary > into an XML editor. It doesn't know what's a list item, it doesn't > know what's a paragraph, etc. You'll need to do a bunch of work to > teach it all of that stuff. No it doesn't/you haven't. It is quite sufficient for the editor to know what it can derive from the DTD, i.e. what element goes where and when and how. Extras include showing comments from the DTD (Adept does this, doesn't it?) and formatting the tags and content nicely. One might think that WYSIWYG is a good idea, and apply a style sheet to hide the tags, but you're really working with the structure of the information, and not its presentation, and hiding what you work with is IMHO *not* a good idea. Would you, driving a car, cover the windshield, because traffic is too complex? Thought not. If you want WYSIWYG - i.e. using your computer as a "paper simulator" to borrow Ted Nelson's words - you already have that with Word et al. XML is more useful if it's viewed as something deeper. But, yes, I have no illusions about people bothering to understand this. I fully expect them to take the time - a lot of it - to fire up Word and edit XML using <address>-elements to get italics. Sigh. -kzm PPS: > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) Henry, will I still get bounces of this mail? -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants 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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