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At 1:22 PM -0500 4/8/04, Bob Foster wrote: >Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: >> ...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, > >And maybe a little validation and a little formatting? ;-} > I suppose I could use a preview or validate button. I specifically do not want constant validation. That is, I want the editor to not validate the document I am writing. I do not want it to complain or even notice if I'm producing invalid markup. I should also not that when it comes to code completion, I do not want anything based on some notion of which tags are and are not valid at a particular point. Editors that try this stuff are actively crippling. Even if they were wicked fast (which they aren't), this feature would still get in my way and stop me from doing what I need to do. Features like this are harmful by their very nature, irrespective of performance issues. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@m... Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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