Well,
I’ve tried several XML editors for editing, and from my experience:
1)
XMetal: Good compromise price/WYSIWYG
performance at the cost of some Scripting (not very complicated). The price for
a seat license is moderate.
2)
Oxygen: My editor of choice for developing
code (XML, XSLT, XQuery,…),
but it has some very basic “WYSOWYG features.
3)
FrameMaker: The most impressive tool
for real XML/SGML WYSIGYG editing. It has 2 important drawbacks:
A)
It is very very
expensive.
B)
The way it deals with structured
content is very… peculiar. It works with it own structure definition
language (EDD) and template definition tools. Everything has to be converted to
and from EDD, you have to define mappings (XML applications in FrameMaker parlance),…
As I told you,
it is an impressive tool, BUT it need too much setting up, scripting… and
even (in some specific cases) C programming. I think is most “documentation-company”-Oriented
(you need some engineer devoted to maintain your XML applications). I don’t
think is worthwhile for occasional individual writer.
It
provides DocBook and DITA applications “ready-to-use”
(supposed to be), but in fact it is not that simple.
I
hope that helps.
Pedro
De: Colin Shapiro
[mailto:cmshapiro@gmail.com]
Enviado el: lunes, 14 de mayo de
2007 17:47
Para: David Cramer (Tech Pubs)
CC: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Asunto: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook
Editors
How can XML editors be
WYSIWYG, when there's no way to tell what a document will look like after XSLT?
Or do they basically do "on-the-fly" transformations, to preview what
it will look like in HTML, in print, etc.?
Just curious.
On 5/14/07, David
Cramer (Tech Pubs) <dcramer@motive.com>
wrote:
XMetaL can be scripted to
do anything, but it doesn't have many friendly
DocBook macros out of the box. The included demo Journalist DTD is
similar to DocBook and those macros and features can be converted by
renaming some elements. XMLMind's XXE and Syntext's Serna offer much
better DocBook support out of the box. I know Arbortext's Epic has
DocBook support, but I'm not sure what it has out of the box wrt
convenience macros. I think those are the main four commercial wysiwyg
editors these days.
David
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> > Hello,
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> > I would like to use an editor for writing Docbook,
> preferably WYSIWYG.
> > I used to write Latex with GVIM (non-wysiwyg), but trying to do the
> > same for Docbook XML is too much overhead, code wise.
> > Which editors are used with Docbook? Can anyone please
> recommend? Are
> > there free editors? Are there commercial editors that are good?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
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