Re: Usability of XML editors

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 15:45 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> 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.

Agreed

> > 
> > 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.
> 

Looks useful, if we went with a python approach