Re: Edit xml files with Emacs for Docbook

Minor clarification of Peters response

On 14 April 2016 at 22:44, Peter Flynn [email protected]
[emacs-nxml-mode] <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [WARNING: the following is a personal view: others may disagree]
>
> The original sgml-mode wasn't much use: it recognised pointy brackets
> but that was about it.
>
> Parsing sgml mode (psgml-mode) was a huge improvement: it could read a
> DTD (the format description of an SGML/XML vocabulary) so it understood
> the document structure and could perform name completion, and it
> provided proper editing keystrokes like insert-element, remove-element,
> surround-with-element, delete-element, edit-attributes, go-to-start-tag,
> go-to-end-tag, etc. If your files rely on DTDs, then this is the editing
> mode to use.
>
> But XML can also work with W3C Schemas instead of DTDs. These are
> heavily used, and nxml-mode is an editing mode for Emacs that understand
> them.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NxmlMode


nxml-mode cannot work with W3C schemas, but relax-ng schemas.



regards



-- 
Dave Pawson
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