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WYSIWYG Editor for DocBook DTD Content?

Posted by Cliff on from the another-niche-to-fill dept.

Saqib Ali asks: "This week I saw a demo of the Tagless Editor by i4i. The editor is a plugin to Microsoft Word, which can be used to create XML based content. The plugin can handle various custom DTDs. However it can not properly handle the DocBook DTD. I was wondering if there is any WYSIWYG XML editor that can be used to edit DocBook DTD based content? Any ideas?"

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  1. Re:not necessary by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Sensible default, with user-configurable options.
    Would that be a serif or sans-serif font when I print it?


    Magic
    Oh, so you've conceded that as Docbook doesn't contain style information you can't do wysiwyg. Good good.

    If you included XSL-FO, DSSSL, or CSS then I might have agreed with you.

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  2. Re:not necessary by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Oh grow up you brat.

    Takes one to know one. ;-)

    Okay, are we done reliving our playground years, here? I'll kiss and make up if you will.

    1. HTML "wysiwyg" editors were lying.

    Well, I certainly don't have the energy to get into a fight over what WYSIWYG means. Let's just agree that we're talking about a program that shows formatted text instead of XML tags, and that allows the user to apply XML tags using buttons or mouse gestures or speech recognition or synchronized farts or some other method that doesn't involve typing the fucking things out.

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