Re: [docbook-apps] XML Processing on a Mac

[Cheetos <ccheetham@gmail.com>]

Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
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>> Update to my own post ... Tried TextMate and was impressed enough  
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> In what ways do you consider it is better than emacs+nxml ?
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Wouldn't say it was better per se.  The original post looked for advice
setting up a docbook toolchain on Mac OS X.  TextMate, because it's a native
OS X app, integrates nicely into that environment ("When in Rome, ...").  
There are Emacs/nxml-mode features that I already miss in TextMate, notably
the continual doc validation, either because the feature does not exist or
I've yet to find it.  For myself, I may switch back to Emacs after a few
weeks, or I may implement the missing features, or I may decide the
look-n-feel is more important then the feature.  Dunno yet.   

I do like TextMate's approach to the plugins -- it simply execs a script
(bash, python, ruby) -- as opposed to having to write lisp.  I know Python
so that's how I've modified what TextMate calls "Bundles".  I modify my
emacs usually via Google :)

For the Mac OS X readers on the thread, particularly those who are not
familiar/intimate with Emacs, it's an alternative worth evaluating.  It's
commercial software, but has a 30-day-or-something eval period.
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