-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ben Hall wrote: > 3) (Not a BE QUESTION..) I remember reading a while ago about turning > Abi into a general XML editor, has any work been done on that? That'd > be fantastic! As the XML geek around here, I'll answer this. I would put lots of money on this not happening. Structured XML editing is hard. It requires an entirely different paradigm and set of structures than word processing. For example, the current piece table back end is very flat, and shoehorning nested XML into it would be *very* painful. AbiWord is good for editing ABW format documents, and documents with nice mappings to said format (such as other word processor formats). If you need to edit general XML (perhaps based on a DTD or schema), there are lots of good tools out ther. For example, a Java-based editor named Merlot (open-source too) was recently mentioned on http://xmlhack.com Hope that isn't too discouraging. > > > > Anyway, thanks for your time, and for the great program. I hope I can > help, Thanks. We hope you can help too. AFAIK (which is not very far) there hasn't been much BeOS development recently, but it would be nice to see that pick up. > > Ben > sam th [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE5Nla6t+kM0Mq9M/wRAls6AJ0QuPeDcIaWqoBV0eauvp5oa11hiACgu9a4 OXESeMpzDqQjVwmGJL+Ej4w= =CMv2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
