[plug] Whats a good xml editor for linux?

[Bernd Felsche]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:03:42PM +0800, Derek Fountain wrote:
> > > Actually, it seems you do understand the reasoning! Think of
> > > OpenOffice as an XML editor - that's exactly what it is.
> >
> > No it isn't an XML editor.
> 
> Open a new document in OOo. Write some text and save it in native OOo format. 
> Go to the disk and look at the file (unzipping it first). XML, right? Now 
> load it back into OOo and edit the document. Save it again and go and have 
> another look. Still XML, but now it's changed. You edited the XML using OOo.
> 
> OOo is an XML editor.

No more than vim; maybe *less*.

Snip the following valid XML and open it with OOo.
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE entry SYSTEM "../catalogue.dtd">
<entry id="isodate" 
       datestamp="2001/05/04" 
       modifier="h.harders at tu-bs.de">
  <about>
    <name>isodate</name>
    <caption>Tune the output format of dates language dependent.</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Harald Harders</name>
      <email>h.harders at tu-bs.de</email>
    </author>
    <license type="lppl"/>
    <version>
      <number>2.03</number>
    </version>
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      This package provides five output formats of the 
      commands \today, \printdate, \printdateTeX, and \daterange
      (partly language dependent): 
      ISO (yyyy-mm-dd), numeric (e.g. dd.\,mm.~yyyy), short 
      (e.g. dd.\,mm.\,yy), TeX (yyyy/mm/dd), original (e.g. dd. mmm yyyy).
      The commands \printdate and \printdateTeX print any date.
      The command \daterange prints a date range and leaves out unnecessary 
      year or month entries.
      This package supports German (old and new rules, Austrian), US
      English, French, Danish, and Norwegian.
    </abstract>
    <documentation location="http" type="pdf">
      http://www.act.cmis.csiro.au/gjw/tex/docs/isodate.pdf
    </documentation>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <texlive>latex3</texlive>
    <ctan>macros/latex/contrib/supported/isodate</ctan>
  </distribution>
</entry>
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Now, is OOo an _XML_ editor?

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