[postgis-users] Documentation - XML editors

[Paul Ramsey]

Well, I took xxe for a test drive this evening. The stylesheet is
*fabulous*. One of the nicest docbook renderings I have seen.
Unfortunately, the editing environment is clunky at best. Making changes
to existing text is easy enough, but the gold standard for docbook
editing is adding new content and altering the structure of existing
content, and that is quite hard with this tool. For the moment, I am
sticking with XMetaL as my docbook editor of choice. I might switch to
that stylesheet though :)
P.

John Reid wrote:
> 
> Agreed.  However until OpenOffice, KWord, AbiWord or .....  have robust,
> easy to use and configure support for DocBook, I guess we have to use
> what we can find....  The alternative is learn how to use Emacs with the
> psgml extension.  I guess for most purposes that is probably overkill -
> and I can't see most users going to the trouble of learning it.  From a
> support person's point of view,  keep it simple if possible and try to
> keep to a consistent set of key bindings ;-)
> 
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 11:42:40AM +1000, John Reid wrote:
> >
> >>Just found some more info on editors that support DocBook :-)
> >>
> >
> >I don't remember the initial info.
> >
> >>Is it worth trialling XEE as an editor?  It's not Free Software,
> >>
> >
> >As for obvious reasons an editor that is proprietory
> >cannot be recommended, if you want to further Free Software.
> >
> >I wonder what the KDE people use for an editor.
> >Additionally I've heard good things about TeXmacs (which is not
> >a decendence of emacs), but a visual editor.
> >
> 
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