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