On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 22:30 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > I see nothing artificial about trying to build a generalized approach > that we can re-use for shared editing and real-time synchronization of a > wide variety of XML formats, not just SVG.
I don't know if it's "artificial" or not, but "you should go back and solve a much more general and more vaguely defined problem" is generally a good way to kill a project. A generic XML editor isn't going to know much about the semantics of the document it is editing. It's not necessarily going to be a good framework for a whiteboarding application, any more than emacs is a good foundation for Photoshop. They both edit files, but...
