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 Thank you Tommie for expressing this more elegantly than I did. On 27/05/2023 13:34, B Tommie Usdin wrote: This is why the expectation that a specialist in some other area will[...specialists...] insisting that they make the time and devote the energy to learn skills outside their area of expertise is an effort to dilute their genius, and likely to fail. learn XML and an XML editor is misplaced. To them it is excise: unwanted and unnecessary, no matter how clearly its utility is explained. That is a sort of holy grail: that users will be able to create and[...] I want the geeky hackery people to make it so easy to do things we know will be long-term helpful (such as create standards in tractable, long-term stable formats) that the specialists can do it without knowing anything about it. maintain their document in meaningful XML without knowing they are doing it. It's getting closer but it still requires a lot of front-loading to make the interface talk to the users in their domain vocabulary. (There is a marginally related hurdle to overcome among those who are unaware of the conventions of documents; who don't know what a heading is, or a paragraph, or a list, or a table; or italics, or bold.) Our win will come not when we bully the ignorant into learning ourWhich is why it is easier¹ for the non-XML-expert user to signal (for example) a product name by double-clicking it and picking "Product name" from the drop-down menu that appears when they click the [I] button. They get the italics they expect; the organisation gets the <productname> element. Or indeed any of the dozen or so other reasons for wanting italics :-) Peter ¹ As opposed to clicking Insert Element and picking productname from a giant list. The physical effort is the same, but the garnering of intent via the interface is less excise for the user. And faster to train for. 
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