Re: Usability of XML editors

>>>>> David Malcolm <[email protected]>:

> I probably will be around in the city for part of that time, if you do
> want to meet up, though I haven't done any work on Conglomerate in a
> long time (need someone else to hack on it, I haven't the energy
> anymore to do C hacking in my spare time, too much going on at work;
> if I were redoing things I'd do a rewrite in pygtk).

Could it still have used libxml2 underneath, then?

Some of the nice things about conglomerate, was the things it got for
free from libxml2.  One of these nice things, was the care libxml2 takes
to not mess up the formatting of the original document.

The Java based XML editors I've seen, have not been very good at keeping
to and keeping existing formatting.  So when I have to edit those same
files later with emacs+nxml, things look really bad!

The Java based editors also reformat the CDATA content and mixed content
elements, which is _really_ bad, from a text/document editor POV.