RE: Open Source XML Editor

[Danny Ayers <danny@panlanka.net>]

Title: RE: Open Source XML Editor

I've just been informed that XMetaL can do this kind of thing (and is way better than the competition, I'm reliably (?) informed ;-)

 

Cheers,

Danny.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim McCune [mailto:timm@channelpoint.com]
Sent: 13 February 2001 21:30
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: Open Source XML Editor

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Merlot doesn't go quite this far, but it does support plugins in the
form of code bundled with a DTD, so that the editor can become very
customized for each DTD.
(http://www.merlotxml.org).

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com
[mailto:Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 6:48 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: Open Source XML Editor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Ayers [ mailto:danny@panlanka.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:26 AM
> To: Marcus Carr; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: Open Source XML Editor
>
> What would be nice would be a WYSIWYG XML doc editor that had
> it's toolbar
> buttons, form areas etc. defined by the DTD, so it would look like
> a  (application-specific) word processor.  I don't know - can
> any editor do this yet?

SoftQuad XMetal and Arbortext Epic can do this, but require a lot of
DTD-specific customization.  It's kindof hard to imagine a "wizard"
that could understand a DTD or schema well enough to do this
automatically ... but would be a wonderful innovation!

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