WYSIWYG Editor for DocBook DTD Content?

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?"

Comments

Conglomerate, maybe?

[DeadMoose]

I was looking for the same thing not too long ago, and came across Conglomerate, which despite its web page, is no longer dead, and back under development.

I've had a few problems getting it compiled/running well, but from what I've seen, it looks like it's a fairly decent bit of code, so once it gets some polish, it could be pretty handy.

have you tried

[Hubert_Shrump]

LyX? I know it's not a true WYSIWYG, but it does have a DocBook mode. I haven't tried it in awhile (went back to xemacs), but it might have all sorts of new goodies.

Re:not necessary

[GigsVT]

The presentation is more than just typefaces and formatting, in docbook it goes as far as what gets put on what HTML page, and how they are linked together, or even if some structures are omitted from the presentation.

You have one docbook file that get broken up into make multiple HTML files, or a single TXT file, or whatever.

You designate sections/chapters/whatever, and the presentation decides how to parse those. The point is that only the structure of the document is defined, nothing is assumed about presentation. Nothing at all!

A tool could be developed to assist this, by basically making sure you don't nest improperly, or use tags in an invalid context, or even give you a hint about what some things will look like on the final output using a common style sheet, but ultimately there is no way to approach even close to WYSIWYG.

And no offense intended likewise, but the "average person" shouldn't be trying to write XML documents if they can't understand the concept of seperating content from presentation.