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RE: XML-appropriate editing data structures

• To: 'Bob Foster' <bob@o...>
• Subject: RE: XML-appropriate editing data structures
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:00:26 -0500
• Cc: XML Developer List <xml-dev@l...>

Yes.

As well as turning off validation.  XML isn't the issue; 
it is the domain of the information and the production 
process.  If an aggregate document type (what the IETMs 
tend to be) is being edited, I may need several editors  
or plugins, or one polyglot editor.  XML doesn't force one into a 
text editor; it always preserves that option, and sometimes, 
it is the most productive one.

IME, I prefer text editors only because I get to define most 
of my language world.  In cases such as X3D, however, 
it is very hard to do anything complex or compelling with 
a text editor although I've seen it done on occasion.

This debate comes down to the application language, 
the production pipeline, and the experience of the 
author.  XML Doesn't Care.

len

From: Bob Foster [mailto:bob@o...]

Len, if I understood him correctly, suggested that an ideal 
editor would be multi-modal, allowing visualization in all the 
application-specific domains a document traverses.

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