Wordperfect XML-style "show tags"/"hide tags" WYSIWYG display?
Wolfgang Keller <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Aug 2005 16:05:19 +0200
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Hello, I've been using the Wordperfect XML environment for some time and think that it's nearly the perfect application for end-users for working on document-centric XML (I found it even better than Framemaker's XML support). The feature I especially like about it is its WYSIWYG editing view (just like in an average wordprocessor) with the possibility to switch on/off the visibility of the XML tags. Except that it: - uses a proprietary style sheet format (not CSS or XSL-FO or whatever other open standard), - doesn't accept schemas (only DTDs), - isn't available for anything else than Windows, - may or may not get any further development, depending on the survival of Corel and the mood of the day of their senior management. Among all the open-source XML authoring applications I've seen so far, Conglomerate seems to be the one which comes the closest to Wordperfect. Except that it doesn't seem to offer the possibility to view (and edit) the document in a near-WYSIWYG-like fashion (taking into account as far as reasonably feasible the actual stylesheet you're using to format the document for print) with optional display of the XML tags (I can mail screenshots of Wordperfect off-list if anyone wants to see what it looks like). Is there any chance that Conglomerate will go in this direction as well or is this not all the intention of the developers? TIA, Sincerely, Wolfgang Keller -- P.S.: My From-address is correct