Re: [docbook-apps] WYSIWYG Editor for docbook

[Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>]

On 8/12/2012 4:41 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote:
> There are a bunch of very good visual editors out there that will
> handle DocBook. The one I know best is Oxygen
> (http://www.oxygenxml.com/), which works very well with DocBook.

The last time I tried opening one of my DocBook manuals with it (version 
9, maybe?) it didn't handle XML Includes gracefully.

I like to have a top-level document that simply includes all the chapter 
files, which lets me edit the chapters individually.  This keeps file 
sizes reasonable and (much more important) localizes VCS comments to the 
relevant section of the document.

As I recall, oXygen sort of kind of attempted to open the top-level 
document, but didn't give me the seamless WYSIWYG view I expected: an 
editable version of the final PDF output.  If instead I opened an 
individual chapter file, it got confused by the cross-references, since 
it didn't understand that it was looking at a tree in a forest.

Have they fixed this limitation, or does it still push you toward 
putting the entire document in a single file?