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>As far as "Visual Programming" environments go (especially for "non >programmers") I think it is invaluable to have the ability to step through >the code and see what is happening which implies an IDE rather than a simple >editor. That's a really good point, and it's probably why I won't be able to get away without writing an IDE forever. However, there are some pretty good examples of languages for which an integerated editor/debugger came long after acceptance (thinking javascript here). By then, though, there will be some great XML editor in open source written in Java, and I can extend someone else's editor, rather than writing my own! ;) Or maybe we can all agree on some APIs (God, let it not be ActiveX!) which editors should provide, so we can tell them (from a running program) to highlight a given line and character position, to add an item (like "Stop Here") to their menu bar, etc. I could see that being useful even when you use XML for more traditional document applications (imagine being able to single-step through the interpretation of the document by your formatter and being able to show the user what all the &entities are expanding into). -Joshua Smith xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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