Mark Fletcher wrote: > I've been searching around for a week trying to find a good WYSIWYG XML > editor and I think I've just found the best! I have a few questions...
Many thanks for these nice compliments. We are also convinced that many people happen to *hate* our XML editor, even if they are polite enough not to write it. > I assume your Professional edition version has FULL schema support? Yes, full. > Including modularization, redefine, etc.? Yes, *really* full. (We also fully support RELAX NG.) > I'm particularly interested in DITA support. Do you know of any reason why > your tool might not support > DITA? No. > Is it at all possible to evaluate a Professional version? I have a > schema that I'd like to test it with. I'll sign whatever you like in > terms of not redistributing, or whatever. No. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/user_faq.html#try_pro_edition > I like the look of your Docbook demo. How is onscreen styling > controlled? CSS? How difficult is it to create a stylesheet for a new > schema? Yes, CSS. Writing a CSS is intrinsically not difficult. However it could take a long time if, like with DocBook, you have to style several hundreds of elements and also to write one or more tests for each styled element. > Do you have any options to view the actual XML text? No. There is just a (rather crude, 2-line long) macro which opens the document being edited in your favorite text editor and automatically reopens it in XXE if you have modified this document. The reason for that ``shortcoming'' is that we still don't understand why one would want to see the actual XML text. > Anything tricky about hooking this up to a CMS? It depends on the CMS. If your CMS supports WebDAV, there is nothing special to do (examples: Subversion=Apache+mod_dav+mod_svn, SiberLogic). If this is not sufficient, given the extensibility of XMLmind XML Editor, its comprehensive, documented, APIs, its tutorials for the developers, etc, we don't see what you can't do with it (if you really want to do it).
