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

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.

Structured Editor

[Crutcher]

I agree, you don't really want a WYSIWYG editor for docbook, as that violates the Information/Representation sepperation.

But what would be _really_ useful would be a structured editor, which provided a good mapping at several levels (ala Mozilla's composer, where I can turn on and off tabs). The point of such an editor's representation would not be for final production, but to unambigously display the information's _structure_ to the user, and to facilitate manipulating that structure.

It would be like a very ugly word processor, where the tables would always have borders, etc.

If that editor was then linked with a set of generation tools, to make it EASY to genearte and view PostScript, HTML, XHTML, etc. productions, then you'd really have something. I'd use it, for sure, and I don't mind using docbook tags now.

In fact, would mozilla's composer be a good place to start with a docbook editor? Mozilla has good DOM tools, like the inspector, which loads XML DocBook files just fine.