xml-dev - Re: DTD or XML Schema editor recommendations (Win32)

[ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org> writes:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 MarkH@i2.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > My ideal
> > - text based (ie typed input)
> > - syntax checking as you type
> > - syntax coloring of content, highlighting errors as you go
> > - autocompletion menus (eg where #REQUIRED | #IMPLIED | #FIXED would go I
> > get a pop up menu as I type containing these items)
> >
> > Is there anything out there with these features for Windows NT?
> >
> > I've looked at
> >   Athens - features above present, but too unstable
> >   XML SPy 3.5 beta 1 - feature packed but not the above, making input
> > painfully slow (particularly for DTDs)
> >   ezDTD - good, but again not very slick for input for the same reason
> >
> > Any recommendations welcome, but particularly with the features I'm looking
> > for.
> 
> XED? I don't think it does the syntax highlighting, but it does the rest.
> Its DTD based not schema based though.

Thanks for the plug (XED can be found at [1]), but to clarify, XED is
not a DTD-authoring tool.  It _is_ a DTD-sensitive XML authoring tool,
with built-in validation interface and error-highlighting, which makes
it a very good _XML Schema_ authoring tool, since there is a DTD for
XML Schemas [2].

ht

[1] http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xed.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/2000/10/{XMLSchema,datatypes}.dtd
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