XML Editors - Word 2000??

[Steven Livingstone, ITS, SENM]

	>Think of Word as an XML editor that only works with a single DTD.
It has
	>been tweaked and honed to make editing with that DTD for many
years. Now
	>imagine you pop a document according to your vocabulary into an XML
	>editor. It doesn't know what's a list item, it doesn't know what's
a
      >paragraph, etc. You'll need to do a bunch of work to teach it all of
that

Maybe I'm missing something, but could they not have described the data
using 'standard' XML and used a separate styling entity to (eg. XSL) to
actually implement the data?? Surely describing the data for a list item and
using some attribute understood by the styling language to interpret how it
would be displayed would have made sense - no?

I know there are things whcih just don't work - ie. Macros - but they don't
work when saved as HTML anyway.
I just think it would have been tremendous if we could use XML to it's
potential and I con't see any real reason whay it couldn't have started with
W2k.

Maybe I'm just too optimistic - thanks for the pointers to the editors.

cheers,
Steven


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Prescod [SMTP:paul at prescod.net]
> Sent:	27 June 1999 02:22
> To:	xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re: XML Editors - Word 2000??
> 
> Steven Livingstone wrote:
> > 
> > Anyway, I am looking for an Editor as easy to use as Word, but allows
> you to
> > work with XML without modification !!
> 
> Who isn't?
> 
> XML.com has a list of XML editors:
> 
> http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/pt/Authoring
> 
> I know for a fact that not all of them actually *support* XML but it seems
> that SGML support is considered "close enough" for xml.com. I don't mind
> that but I wish they would label the true XML supporters. The ones I know
> to support XML are:
> 
> http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/p/Adept_Editor
> http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/p/Documentor
> http://www.xml.com/xml/pub/p/XMetaL
> 
> Also a few others on their list aren't supported or even sold anymore.
> 
> You will not find a tool that is "as easy to use as Word" out of the box.
> Think of Word as an XML editor that only works with a single DTD. It has
> been tweaked and honed to make editing with that DTD for many years. Now
> imagine you pop a document according to your vocabulary into an XML
> editor. It doesn't know what's a list item, it doesn't know what's a
> paragraph, etc. You'll need to do a bunch of work to teach it all of that
> stuff.
> 
> -- 
>  Paul Prescod  - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself
>  http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco
> 
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