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I'm not saying that XML Spy is perfect. There are some things that it just
punts on. I was merely commenting on its effectiveness as a Schema authoring
tool.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: DuCharme, Bob (LNG) [mailto:bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:14 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XML IDE: What are the top 3 and why?
Mark Feblowitz wrote
>I'm an emacs user from way back. Written lots of emacs lisp, was an
>evangelist.
>So far, nothing I've seen compares with XML Spy for visualizing and
>manipulating XML Schema.
I've seen XML Spy consider DTDs to be "valid" when they had bad mistakes in
them that any other parser would find. I too am part of the cult of Emacs;
when I need to create or edit a W3C schema I load the DTD for schemas into
Emacs with PSGML.
I once wrote a tutorial on using Emacs+PSGML aimed at people who'd never
used Emacs before. When the book I wrote it for went out of print, I put a
PDF of that chapter up for free at http://www.snee.com/bob/sgmlfree/. I'm
amazed at how often it still gets downloaded, and that it's been translated
to Polish and Russian. To those not in the cult of Emacs (picture me making
a smiling, glassy-eyed stare): join us... it's free... it doesn't hurt...
just try it for a week or two...
Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@
snee.com> "The elements be kind to thee, and make thy
spirits all of comfort!" Anthony and Cleopatra, III ii
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