Re: Wordperfect XML-style "show tags"/"hide tags" WYSIWYG display?

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 04:05:19PM +0200, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> 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

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