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I'm willing to maintain such a list of criteria for editors. It's obvious that I concentrated on the features nowhere available (as far as I now). It's desirable to mention, if not describe, more basic features. For instance, XED selects (in its "text" and only mode) at once the WHOLE element when mousing over beginning of element, which 199$ worth XML Spy doesn't do. Also I forgot the instant enforcing (just after typing) of simple type and key constraints, instead of batch enforcing as in XML Spy. Vim has a nice instant coloring of syntax (erroneous or not). etc etc ... Maybe a list of keywords (thesaurus) to classify the features ? And a matrix of features versus editors ? Cheers JMV -----Message d'origine----- De : Michael Smith [mailto:smith@x...] Envoyé : jeudi 25 janvier 2001 13:32 À : Jean-Marc VANEL Cc : xml-dev@l...; office@x...; jmvanel@f...; Guillaume Rousse (E-mail); Thierry Madillo (E-mail); wwbota@f... Objet : Re: Suggestions for XML editors Jean-Marc VANEL <jmvanel@i...> writes: [regarding features that XML editors should have] > What really would make the difference would be functionalities like: > > - selecting, cut-copy-paste, and advance cursor to node lists selected by > XPath strings > - edit through an XPath selection: hide all the rest not selected by the > XPath (of course remember those XPath associated to the Schema) > [...other good ideas] It would be good to have an ongoing discussion about criteria for editors, maybe eventually come up with an informal document describing expected application behavior, and rationale for why it's expected. Documenting desirable integration with related technologies (e.g. XSLT/XPath things) is worthwhile, but a set of standard descriptions of "basic" XML editor behavior would be good too-- For example, how an editor should handle insertion of required elements and attributes, insertion/choices from groups of required elements, selection of IDs for IDREF attributes, etc. > What about free software projects ? A standard description of expected editing-application behavior would give open-source developers and users common criteria to develop to and evaluate against. Also for evaluating proprietary apps I guess -- Michael Smith mailto:smith@x... xml-doc http://www.xml-doc.org/
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