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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: XML Editors
I use xxe (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor), free and platform independent. Not perfect (but I have not tried the paid version) but good enough for most of my uses. I would not know whether it's appropriate for industrial uses, though. ed nixon wrote: > Steinar Bang wrote: > >>>>>>> Robert P J Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes: >>>>>>> >>> >>> having been through the "which editor should i use" wars myself, >>> >> >> More like a shared frustration that there aren't really any >> satisfactory editors out there, to offer today's MSWord users. >> No free tools, at least. I've heard good things about XMetal, but I >> have never tried it. >> > I've used XMetaL for small DocBook projects over the past 2 or 3 years. > It is (or was) totally adequate to the task and offered excellent > flexibility in that there were text, tags and tags-off views of the > edited content as well as a reasonable CSS-IE-driven preview window. In > addition, until the new version 4 release, it was possible to adopt a > very flexible approach to customization, from light, user-controlled > changes in behaviour all the way over to complete gutting and rebuilding > via forms and scripting. XMetaL was my "editor of choice" for XML and > the occasional excursion into SGML (or even by extension HTML). > > With version 4, Corel has changed the packaging and marketing approach > by getting further into bed with the Windows platform. The packaging > sees a partitioning of XMetaL into developer versions and a run-time > version. The developer version requires MS Visual Studio. The run-time > version no longer contains the forms-designer functionality of earlier > versions; it's not clear what else has been removed because Corel is not > responding to queries on its mailing list and the marketing info on the > Corel site is vague, at least when last I looked. In addition, it's > extremely inconvenient to evaluate the changes because, at last scan, > only the developer version of the product was available for download and > testing. One thing is clear, SGML is no longer a part of XMetaL's > functionality. > > My take on this is that Corel, in response to the $25M MS cash infusion > of a year or so ago, changed its direction with this product by adopting > the Visual Studio infrastructure. Perhaps I'm deluded, but it's not hard > to imagine a scenario in which that decision being made, Microsoft's > mission to neuter a potentially competing product was accomplished and > they then started shopping their interest in Corel to the VC market. I > think they sold it off a month or two ago. I admit this is over > simplified in that Corel has not been doing itself a lot of good on > other fronts either. But I think there are shadows of truth there. > > In any event, XMetaL has become a more difficult "buy" decision as a > result of changes to version 4 because of the added weight of baggage it > brings to the organization. The changes seem to leave the individual, > small to medium business environment in the lurch. And the whole thing > makes XML advocacy in markets other than the traditional technical > publishing bastions very, very difficult indeed. > > Too bad. > > ...edN > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-help@lists.oasis-open.org > -- Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail: eduardo.gutentag@Sun.COM Web Technologies and Standards | Phone: +1 510 550 4616 x31442 Sun Microsystems Inc. | 1800 Harrison St. Oakland, CA 94612 W3C AC Rep / OASIS TAB Chair
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