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Subject: Re: [docbook] RE: Simply viewing DB


I'd try XXE (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/) which both hides the
tags (which is what the original poster intended if I understood
correctly) and saves nicely formatted XML.

It's a commercial editor worth every penny in my very humble opinion.


Cavicchio_Rob@emc.com escribió:
> rob [mailto:ralarson@pacific.net] wrote:
>
>   
>> I came across a piece of free software documentation (and glad to  
>> find any documentation at all besides source code!) that from the  
>> file extension is SGML and from content of the first line is  
>> apparently a DocBook document.  I tended to go cross-eyed, however,  
>> when I tried to (human-) read the d___ thing.  Firefox shows 
>> a giant,  
>> undifferentiated and still partially marked-up blob of text.
>>     
>
>
> A decent editor (we use Epic Editor) displays DocBook files in a
> readable fashion.
>
> An editor that would be even better IMO is one that saves the actual
> lines of source markup in a readable format; i.e., as visually indented
> and nested elements that are easy to follow when you open the file in a
> text editor. I have yet to see any XML or HTML editor actually do that,
> which is too bad since one of the design considerations of XML is
> supposed to be that its readable even without a special editor.
>
>
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