[plug] Whats a good xml editor for linux?

[Kirk Turner]

For what purpose were you needing the editor Bill? XML editing or XSLT
etc.

I was looking for (a while back, and am still looking) a good drag and
drop xslt editor to make nice looking web pages based upon xml and xslt
- or rather trying to find one that someone with limited experience and
training could use. This is where I found XMLSpy fell down because for
some reason (perhaps I couldn't find the way to do it) you couldn't set
the name of form elements rendering it useless for my purposes.

In the end I think I ended up leaning towards the "use your favourite
html editor and run percussion split on it when you've finished".

Kirk

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 09:54, Derek Fountain wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2003 20:42, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Whats a good xml editor for linux?
> 
> As you've probably gathered from the responses you've had so far, there isn't 
> one. I thought Quanta offered XML support of some sort, but the fact they 
> don't flag it as a feature from their website perhaps tells you something in 
> itself. Most programmable text editors offer some sort of XML support, but I 
> don't think any of them could be described as "good". I would consider "good" 
> to be in the league of XMLSpy on that other platform, and there certainly 
> isn't anything like that under Linux that I know of. And XMLSpy doesn't work 
> under Crossover Office, so that's not an option.
> 
> I find this very strange. XML is open, modern and very useful technology, and 
> the back end is well supported with expat, libxml2 and the like. For some 
> reason the OSS community doesn't seem too interested in writing an editor 
> capable of dealing with XML files nicely. Maybe it's an extension of the 
> "it's only text so use vi or emacs" mentality which often makes specific text 
> handling tools hard to come by?
> 
> -- 
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> core dump
> 
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