Re: [docbook] Re: XML Editors

[Jeff Biss <jeff@marco-inc.com>]

Bob,

See below:

Bob Stayton wrote:
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> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:33:15AM -0500, Jeff Biss wrote:
> > I hate to keep harping about it but XMLWriter is a fine tool and well 
> > worth the approximately $50 it costs. It is a text based editor but 
> > makes it obvious when you are not using a DTD's elements properly.
> >     
>
> XMLWriter doesn't seem to be usable with DocBook 4.2.
> I just downloaded XMLWriter 2.12 demo and tried to use
> it with DocBook.  It took several *minutes* to load the
> DocBook DTD into the TagBar.  And after it did, the TagBar
> and the popup Entry Helper don't show all the allowable
> DocBook elements for a given context.
>     
It is usable. I've been through this with them regarding this problem. The
complexity of the DocBook DTD (it is recursive) causes it to display this
way. I don't use the tagbar, I just type in the tags. It properly validates
the structure and will produce the correct output of an XSL stylesheet.
    
Hopefully they will fix this problem so that the tagbar can be used as intended
and show the correct DTD structure. It would be far better if it did show
the DocBook hierarchy.
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> I'm using Windows XP, 1.2 Ghz, 256 MB machine.
> I've got the latest MSXML 4.0 as it recommends.
>
> You must find it is more usable than my experience, so
> I'm wondering what's different with your setup or usage.
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