Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: XML / XSL Editors From: António Mota <amsmota@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:24:23 +0000 |
Well, uptil now i've been testing XMLSpy, oXygen and Exchanger. Here's my toughts and request for comments: XMLSpy is realy a heavy-weight, it seems to do everything. Too many things... And it's a lot expensive than the others, so the choice is to buy one XMLSpy or 4/5 of the others... And i really don't like mainstream software, reflexes of my revolutionary youth :) I was tending to oXygen due to the positive mentions here on list. It seems very good from the developer point of view, i really like that trang thing, specially from learning the various languages by converting one into another. HOWEVER it seems not so good from the non-XSL-expert data-entry point of view. There's only the Tree Editor that seems to me both confusing and hard to work. And this data-entry thing is important. Exchanger seems to be a lot better. I really like the way one can create types (XML/Schema pieces) and then edit them. That's that what i had in mind since the beggining, and i didn4t find the way to do it in the other editors (not that don't exist, i just couldn't find it). And i really like that Outliner/Editor/Tree Viewer for the data entry thing. It seems to me a good balance beteween development capabilities and data-entry facilities. So i'll like to ear some comments from you guys, besides "then go with Exchanger if you liked it", mainly because i ddidn4t test *that* much and i'm probably missing something around the way... Thanks, and excuse the bad english... On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:30:47 -0500, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Antonio, > > At 11:59 AM 1/6/2005, you wrote: > >Also, i had a look at Relax NG but didn't understand what it is. It > >seems a alternative to Schema? A replacement for DTD? However it's not > >a W3C standard, or is it? > > The question is off-topic :->, but yes, all the above. > > It's not a W3C standard, but it is an ISO standard -- in some circles, this > is regarded as better. > > >Last, someone off the list point me to XMLEditor from Cladonia > >http://www.cladonia.com/index.htm does anybody know this? > > Haven't tried this one lately, but from what I saw back when, I think > you'll find it more like oXygen than like Authentic. > > Lightweight forms interfaces are a bit slow to come, largely because there > are so many other ways to go about it. (Web forms work if you have the > architecture in place. Spreadsheets can even work these days.) And platform > issues. I wonder if there are any XForms front ends you could use. Or > Microsoft's InfoPath (quite a nice product, I'm told), if you can afford > the cost/lock-in.... > > Good luck, > Wendell > > > ====================================================================== > Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 > Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 > Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML > ======================================================================
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