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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
> 
> 
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