Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5539FA282 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:56:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15832-08 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:56:32 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 506329FA178 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:56:35 -0400 (AST) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [64.81.245.111] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO [192.168.1.27]) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 10899331; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:00:19 -0800 From: Josh Berkus Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:58:43 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Bruce Momjian , Peter Eisentraut , "Joshua D. Drake" , David Fetter , Guillaume Lelarge References: <200612131714.kBDHEI800289@momjian.us> In-Reply-To: <200612131714.kBDHEI800289@momjian.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612141258.44479.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200612/154 X-Sequence-Number: 4077 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