Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Windows editor for DocBook XML that does not messwith files?

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

At 03:42 AM 22/11/2001 -0600, Michael Smith wrote:
>Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 07:14:39PM -0500, Dan York wrote:
> > > So... in order to bring her up to speed the quickest, I would like
> > > to find a Windows GUI editor that she can use to work with
> > > DocBook XML. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> >   I have seen people familiar with Arbortext tools being really really
> > efficient with them when doing W3C specifications editing, that was
> > the most impressive demo I ever saw of Windows oriented editing tools
> > with a Markup orientation. But since they were long time users
> > of the tools, this may not mean that it's easy to use them as a
> > beginner. Softquad tools should be looked at too.
>
>But Epic (Arbortext) or Xmetal (Softquad) both might fall short of
>meeting Dan's criteria of "not messing with files", because both will
>munge whitespace/indenting in your source when you go to save a file,
>instead of preserving whatever you had before you loaded the file.

This can be configured or customized out of the XMetaL environment for 
designated tags. It's an option under the Customization > Text menu. The 
most recent example, in my experience, being <programlisting>.

cheers.                 ...edN