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Quoting Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>: > > Like I said > > XMLSpy (and probably others I am unaware of) provides this, > > but I want more control over the data entry format. > > This sounds as though it verges on a fully-blown guided syntax editor, > but with a very configurable GUI - I don't think you'll find such a > thing. I've seen it done; a client of the consultancy I work at wanted to work with an XML DTD but their people weren't particularly programmerish and couldn't handle hand coding XML (sorry to burst any bubbles, folks, but XML *is* more complex than HTML in the eyes of non-technical users, we have found), yet the DTD was more document like than XMLSpy's tree emphasis was really suitable for so we made them a custom editor. But being the toolsmiths we are, we made the DTD-dependent parts of it into a seperate module so we can retarget it at all sorts of DTDs. Sadly, you'd have to pay through your nose for a copy of the source :-( But I can tell you it's possible :-) ABS -- Alaric B. Snell http://www.alaric-snell.com/ http://RFC.net/ http://www.warhead.org.uk/ Any sufficiently advanced technology can be emulated in software
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