Re: Switching to XML

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Guillaume Lelarge" <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Switching to XML
Date: 2006-12-11 22:04:57
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0FDF4@algol.sollentuna.se
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> >>> 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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