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Re: XML suites to manage DocBook projects?
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: Kraa de Simon <Simon dot de dot Kraa at icl dot nl>,"'docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org'" <docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:41:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: XML suites to manage DocBook projects?
- References: <C1EBEEBBB842D411B4120000949A1F5802019E9D@wwmessd135>
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:41:40AM +0100, Kraa de Simon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering what XML editors/suites are best suited to edit and "manage"
> a set of XML/XSL/... files that make up a "DocBook project".
>
> Currently I'm evaluating XMetaL 2.1 and XML Spy 4.3 Suite.
>
> I'm looking for a editor/suite that 'guides' the content author in the right
> direction based on the DTD as much as possible.
>
> E.g. XML Spy gives the following XML file when I create a new document (XML
> Spy adds <set>, <book>) and add a chapter (XML Spy adds <chapter>, <title>,
> <calloutlist>, <callout>).
>
> <set>
> <book>
> <title>test</title>
> <chapter>
> <title/>
> <calloutlist>
> <callout arearefs=""/>
> </calloutlist>
> </chapter>
> </book>
> </set>
>
> In XMetaL you will have to create the XML file from scratch.
In XMetal, you can do two things:
1. Create standard template files for each of the kinds of
documents you want to create. Then you can add those
templates to the File->New interface.
2. You can customize each element when it is inserted to
include any children or structure you want to add.
See Tools->Customizations->General->On Insert.
The customizations are associated with
the current DTD.
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