discuss: editor that enforces sgml or xml during text entry?
Subject:
Re: editor that enforces sgml or xml during text entry?
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
21 Aug 2002 18:09:05 -0000
Message-Id: <1029953201.4125.34.camel@mysticchild.dbsoftware.com>
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 10:25, Charles Curley wrote:
> Lloyd, please wrap your text to make your email more readable. Thanks
> > I am wondering if there is an editor that given a DTD, XML Schema,
> > or other document structure & logical format specification that will
> > enforce the use of only those "tags" at creation? It is not
> > WYSIWYG, but an editor that abstracts, and supports the logical
> > model well.
>
> Emacs with PSGML mode. Emacs is included in most Linux disties. PSGML
> mode is on Red Hat 7.1 and may be on other disties. Otherwise,
> http://www.fsf.org/ for Emacs, and
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html for PSGML. Also,
> see Bob DuCharme's PSGML Tricks,
> http://www.snee.com/bob/sgmlfree/emcspsgm.html.
Charles is absolutely correct. Emacs and XEmacs can use the PSGML
plugin to give you everything you need. You can be working in a tag and
drop down a menu to list valid tags that can be nested within that tag.
You can move to the next trouble spot, which is kind of a cool way to
validate your markup is correct (it displays "ok" at the bottom to tell
you it's good to go). You can use the drop downs to insert tags as
well, and it will list the valid ones available. Of course there is the
ability to use color tags (faces), which makes it really easy to see if
you make a mistake. Should I go on? ;)
> >
> > Ideally, it would have both type-head capabilities, and short-cutted
> > menu / drop down menu / mouse clicked menu / to list the possible
> > tags @ an arbitary point in the document. Of course, the preference
> > is that it is gratis, open-source software.
>
> Emacs/PSGML meets all your requirements.
I think that Emacs has mixed reviews sometimes, but the latest distros
include the newest versions of Emacs, with drop down menus and icons in
addition to the keyboard shortcuts. When I installed Mandrake 8.2 I
only needed to structure my catalogs, and XEmacs was already complete
with PSGML if I remember correctly. If not, it's a breeze to install.
If you need more info, feel free to holler!
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