Re: [xml-dev] Heterogeneous XML editing environments - how do youcope?

[Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@redhat.com>]

Robert Koberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:51 -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>   
>> When you have a heterogeneous editing environment, that's because 
>> different tools are better for different jobs. Certainly the vast 
>> majority
>>     
>
> Is there a vastness here ?
>   

If we're counting people who have written the specifications that define 
the XML family in the W3C, there is a definite vastness in favor of 
text-oriented editing environments. That's the population I meant to 
describe.

> I have never used XMetal, but I like the ability to not impose editor
> visual restrictions like line breaking in something that should not have
> line breaking.

And conversely, when I painstakingly put that whitespace in a document 
to make it easier to edit in the environments I use, I resent editors 
that completely trash it, not only making it harder to read, but making 
cvs diffs a lot harder to interpret, since virtually every line has 
changed by simple virtue of using that particular editor on a file, 
changing perhaps one character. The fact of different preferences for 
what should happen is precisely the situation referred to in the title 
of this thread.

Jonathan