[plug] Whats a good xml editor for linux?

[James Devenish]

In message <1071816904.24541.12.camel at cbbcsc204a.murdoch.edu.au>
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:24:23PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> I would lkke to make the distinction between editors like OO and
> vi/vim/gvim which can text edit xml, and an xml editor...as xml is
> more complex, the features needed are greater (including built in
> validation against the DTD).

Fair enough. But just to clarify: I use vim for XML editing because it
facilitates things like tag completion, tag closing, hierarchical
navigation, validating against the DTD, etc. That is, it provides
specific assistance for the manipulation of XML. I assume the same is
true for emacs.

(The difference between vim's performance and, say, a dedicated XML
editor is that a dedicated XML editor would do the DTD validation
continuously in the background whereas in vim, it would happen after a
period of inactivity or upon demand. Well, maybe it can be done in the
background as you type, but I haven't tried that. For example, I have
vim do spell-checking like Microsoft Word does, except that vim only
highlights changes after I have stopped typing for a few milliseconds.
BTW, I didn't have auto spell checking enabled on the host with which I
edit my mail for this list. This has now been corrected.)