Well, I’ve tried several XML editors for editing, and from my experience:
1) XMetal: Good compromise price/WYSIWYG performance at the cost of
some Scripting (not very complicated). The price for a seat license is
moderate.
2) Oxygen: My editor of choice for developing code (XML, XSLT,
XQuery,…), but it has some very basic “WYSOWYG features.
3) FrameMaker: The most impressive tool for real XML/SGML WYSIGYG
editing. It has 2 important drawbacks:
A) It is very very expensive.
B) The way it deals with structured content is very… peculiar. It works
with it own structure definition language (EDD) and template definition
tools. Everything has to be converted to and from EDD, you have to define
mappings (XML applications in FrameMaker parlance),…
As I told you, it is an impressive tool, BUT it need too much setting
up, scripting… and even (in some specific cases) C programming. I think is
most “documentation-company”-Oriented (you need some engineer devoted to
maintain your XML applications). I don’t think is worthwhile for occasional
individual writer.
It provides DocBook and DITA applications “ready-to-use”
(supposed to be), but in fact it is not that simple.
I hope that helps.
Pedro
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De: Colin Shapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviado el: lunes, 14 de mayo de 2007 17:47
Para: David Cramer (Tech Pubs)
CC: [email protected]
Asunto: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook Editors
How can XML editors be WYSIWYG, when there's no way to tell what a document
will look like after XSLT?
Or do they basically do "on-the-fly" transformations, to preview what it
will look like in HTML, in print, etc.?
Just curious.
On 5/14/07, David Cramer (Tech Pubs) <HYPERLINK
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XMetaL can be scripted to do anything, but it doesn't have many friendly
DocBook macros out of the box. The included demo Journalist DTD is
similar to DocBook and those macros and features can be converted by
renaming some elements. XMLMind's XXE and Syntext's Serna offer much
better DocBook support out of the box. I know Arbortext's Epic has
DocBook support, but I'm not sure what it has out of the box wrt
convenience macros. I think those are the main four commercial wysiwyg
editors these days.
David
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> > I used to write Latex with GVIM (non-wysiwyg), but trying to do the
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