WISH! Open Source XML Editor [was Re: psgml namespaces and schemas]

[Peter Murray-Rust]

At 07:10 AM 12/23/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>Bruce.Durling at equifax.com writes:
>
[...]
>and it might be
>nice to get a more modern open-source XML editing tool under
>development.
>
If I had a single wish as departing moderator it would be that we have a
project to develop an open source editor for XML. There is anyway a
shortage of  editors at present, and those that do exist are (not
unreasonably) usually tied to a single author's point of view (e.g.
streamed text, hierarchical content, etc.) As far as I know, none of them
are easily extensible at API level, and those that do have APIs will differ
enormously from each other.

The lack of an API for an editor effectively makes it impossible for people
to develop a modular approach. Many of the "non-textual" DTD/schemas will
require specialist editors (my own interest is chemistry, but Math,
Geography/maps, SVG, etc are all similar). We need to be able to
concentrate *just* on the domain-specific parts of our subject, and not to
be concerned with general structural or technical editing.

I have raised this subject from time to time over the last year or two and
haven't found it easy to get interest. Now that XML is really here, editing
is a key requirement for creating documents. For example, I know that there
is pressure to create graduate theses in electronic form - but this is not
easy in XML if there is anything other than text in the thesis. Are there
other readers of this list that understand the problem and do we have a way
forward?

	P.


>All the best,
>
>
>David
>
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