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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. -- 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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