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Perhaps your last sentence pretty well sums up the notion of an XML
editor as a beast unto itself. However, if I am the guy writing Word,
Illustrator, or just plain 'ol MarkWare, I still have to deal with
loading all of that XML into the appropriate data structures. Although
in this case there is nothing requiring me to use a DOM like structure
I will face most of the same issues in designing the appropriate
structures for my application.
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 8:27 AM -0400 4/8/04, Mark Schmeets wrote:
>
>> Well yes, maybe. I think it depends a lot on what *kind* of XML you
>> are working with. Certainly when there is a lot more text than
>> structure you want something closer to a text editor. When there is a
>> lot more structure than text you want something closer to a form
>> based editor. The fact that there is this range of application makes
>> producing a good *general purpose* XML editor very difficult.
>
>
> Yes, but I don't think most XML-specific tools go far enough. I'm a
> man of extremes. I either want to edit my XML by hand in a text editor
> (with maybe a little help from syntax coloring and tag completion,
> though I won't miss it if it isn't there; and I certainly wouldn't
> accept poor performance in order to have these features.) or I want an
> application specific editor such as Word or Adobe Illustrator that
> completely shields me from the native XML. I encounter little need for
> anything in between these two positions.
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