Re: [docbook] Re: XML Editors

[ed nixon <ed.nixon@LynnParkPlace.org>]

Steinar Bang wrote:

>>>>>>Eduardo Gutentag <eduardo.gutentag@sun.com>:
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>>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.
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>My major nit with it, is that it expands all entities and then forgets
>that they exist:
>	http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/features.html#nonfeatures
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>Since I use external entities to split documents into multiple files,
>use the same sections/chapters in multiple files, read in my
>application's version number, etc. etc., XXE is _not_ the editor for
>me. 
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I tried it a few months ago,  but couldn't get my Docbook documents to 
validate. These were files that validated in XMetaL and also processed 
error free in Saxon and XSLTProc. I posted queries once or twice to this 
list with no joy. I wrote to their tech support, waited and then 
received a reply saying there was nothing wrong with the files I had 
sent them, but they couldn't do anythong for me because their focus was 
on "user interface" questions. You will know that XMLMind depends, by 
default, on the MS parser for validating. The difficulty I had was with 
entities that went unrecognized after they had in fact been defined 
correctly.

To their credit, the developers said they were looking at expanding the 
validation engine capabilities of the product. I don't know if anything 
has happened in that direction yet, however. Also, there have been 
others on the list who have had no problems whatsoever with Docbook 
files, but there is no info to explain where the problems begin and end.

                   ...edN