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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:04:57 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

> >>> Visual Studio has a *very* nice XML editor these days, and they 
> >>> don't do SGML...
> >>> 
> >>> (ok, ok, that's a joke. It's true, sure, but it's not very
> >>> relevant...)
> >> 
> >> Actually it might be for Windows developers wishing to develop 
> >> Windows specific sections. How does it work with Docbook?
> 
> > It works just fine with any XML inlcluding docbook. It does 
> your basic 
> > syntax highlighting, autoindenting and things like that. 
> You can teach 
> > it about things like docbook to get autocomplete on tags and 
> > attributes, but I don't know if anybody has done that (I 
> certainly haven't).
> 
> How is it on the point of not introducing random reformatting 
> into the XML source text?

it doesn't do it, period. Just to be clear, it's a XML *source* editor.
Just like emacs, excpet prettier ;-)

(and just for the record, these days even the GUI editors in Visual
Studio generally do a very good job of not breaking your manually tuned
markup, but there is no GUI editor for docbook)

//Magnus

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