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To: [email protected]
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:58:43 -0800
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Bruce,
> o WYSIWYG - this seems unattainable because such editors are
> going to modify the surrounding XML, which will affect
> hand-edited changes
It would be more accurate to say that we have not identified a WYSWYG tool
which does not mess up the source. There may be one, it would just take a
fair amount of testing to find it.
> o tag assistance - this seems possible, e.g. tag completion,
> drop down list of tags available for this section
Yes, and graphically-enhanced tag support using XML IDEs. Command-line tag
completion is available via Emacs-SGML, but there are a lot more tools
which do it for XML (including Emacs).
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco
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