Emacs

Emacs as XML Editor

It is open source, *extraordinarily* powerful, ubiquitous, and can run in a commandline environment without a GUI interface if need be.

Source: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:17:41 +0100, TEI-L@listserv.brown.edu, Syd_Bauman@BROWN.EDU

ToDo

Below collected some proposals in non-significant order:

- Bundles for Windows-Users, delivering the XML-Packages together with Emacs itself.

- Replace the emacs-lisp start-screen by an XML/TEI editing introduction.

- Replace emacs-lisp scratch buffer by an XML-Tutorial or example buffer

- Provide default workspace

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- XPath testing
- XSLT debugging
- join up with remote document servers  and web urls
- support for NVDL and XSD
- XML diff
- CSS-based visualization

Source: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:35:19 +0100, TEI-L@listserv.brown.edu, sebastian.rahtz@OUCS.OX.AC.UK:

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For certain classes of users (and assuming psgml or nxml modes):

* exposes pointy bracket markup
* allows trespass on the markup
* lack of editing toolbar for common markup operations
* lack of menu representations of most markup operations
* lack of synchronous typographic editor display (commonly, if
  erroneously, called "WYSIWYG" or "GUI")
* does not include DTD/Schema library of common document types
* uses terminology which is now non-standard for end-users ("visit",
  "point", "buffer" etc)

Source: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:37:25 +0100, TEI-L@listserv.brown.edu, peter.flynn@MARS.UCC.IE:

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