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Hi Eric, There are a couple of things that Stylus Studio 6 brings to the table that may be interesting to people shopping for a schema designer. - User can simultaneously work with visual and text editor. - It uses an intuitive navigation metaphor (like internet browsers) to move between type definitions. - The visual designer can switch between simplified and full view depending on what level of details user wish to see. - User can validate XML documents using Xerces-C, Xerces-J, MSXML, .NET and XSV. 30 days evaluation can be found here http://www.stylusstudio.com/download Ivan > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric van der Vlist [mailto:vdv@d...] > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:15 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: W3C XML Schema design tools > > Hi, > > I am mostly a Linux (and vim) user and tend to avoid as much as possible > writing W3C XML Schema schemas by hand much preferring generating them > out of more polite formats (such as RELAX NG's compact syntax, > spreadsheets or sample documents). > > However, I can't hope that everyone will follow my choices and I have > customers working on Windows who need/want to edit large semi complex > WXS schemas by hand. > > I have spent four days with one of them trying to use a recent > evaluation version of XML Spy for that purpose. > > On the bright side, their "Schema design view" is rather handy and does > a fairly good job to hide the complexity of the angle brackets syntax > from the user. > > On the not so bright side, some features common to most of the IDEs such > as refactoring features are missing and we've crashed the editor several > times (one time with a loss of our entire schema that had been deleted > from the file). > > And on the very dark side (IMHO), there are these bugs (or features?) > regarding their support of W3C XML Schema. > > We've carefully stayed away from breaking the UPA rule discussed in > another thread, but we had the opportunity to see that XML Spy doesn't > handle correctly something as straightforward as two consecutive simple > type restrictions involving enumerations. > > What I find really surprising is that despite all these defects, XML Spy > seems to be the only choice for most of the people and I can't believe > that there is no alternative, ie no other schema editor that provide > graphical editing features while being conform to the rec. > > Other editors such as <oxygen/> and stylus seem promising (at least from > their documentations)... > > What are you using (or advising) to edit your schemas? > > Thanks, > > Eric > -- > Have you ever thought about unit testing XSLT templates? > http://xsltunit.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric van der Vlist http://xmlfr.org http://dyomedea.com > (ISO) RELAX NG ISBN:0-596-00421-4 http://oreilly.com/catalog/relax > (W3C) XML Schema ISBN:0-596-00252-1 http://oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> >
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