Re: Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML

Bruce,

> 	o WYSIWYG - this seems unattainable because such editors are
> 	  going to modify the surrounding XML, which will affect
> 	  hand-edited changes

It would be more accurate to say that we have not identified a WYSWYG tool 
which does not mess up the source.  There may be one, it would just take a 
fair amount of testing to find it.

> 	o tag assistance - this seems possible, e.g. tag completion,
> 	  drop down list of tags available for this section

Yes, and graphically-enhanced tag support using XML IDEs.  Command-line tag 
completion is available via Emacs-SGML, but there are a lot more tools 
which do it for XML (including Emacs).

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco