Re: Switching to XML

Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>, "David Fetter" <david@fetter.org>, "Guillaume Lelarge" <guillaume@lelarge.info>, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>, <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2006-12-11T22:04:57Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
> >>> 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