Re: Usability of XML editors

Op 22-11-2007 om 12:53 schreef Steinar Bang:
> >>>>> David Malcolm <[email protected]>:
> 
> > 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.

According http://codespeak.net/lxml/intro.html there are Pythonic
bindings for libxml2.


Cheers
Geert Stappers