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At 07:10 AM 12/23/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >Bruce.Durling@e... writes: > [...] >and it might be >nice to get a more modern open-source XML editing tool under >development. > If I had a single wish as departing moderator it would be that we have a project to develop an open source editor for XML. There is anyway a shortage of editors at present, and those that do exist are (not unreasonably) usually tied to a single author's point of view (e.g. streamed text, hierarchical content, etc.) As far as I know, none of them are easily extensible at API level, and those that do have APIs will differ enormously from each other. The lack of an API for an editor effectively makes it impossible for people to develop a modular approach. Many of the "non-textual" DTD/schemas will require specialist editors (my own interest is chemistry, but Math, Geography/maps, SVG, etc are all similar). We need to be able to concentrate *just* on the domain-specific parts of our subject, and not to be concerned with general structural or technical editing. I have raised this subject from time to time over the last year or two and haven't found it easy to get interest. Now that XML is really here, editing is a key requirement for creating documents. For example, I know that there is pressure to create graduate theses in electronic form - but this is not easy in XML if there is anything other than text in the thesis. Are there other readers of this list that understand the problem and do we have a way forward? P. >All the best, > > >David > >-- >David Megginson david@m... > http://www.megginson.com/ > >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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >unsubscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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