Re: [xsl] good Open source IDE Tool for XSL

[Bill Michell <bill.michell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3 Nov 2009, at 12:20, Syd Bauman wrote:

> > I am Looking for good Open source IDE Tool for XSL Development.
> > Please suggest me some good tool.
>
> AFAIK, Emacs is not exactly set up as an XSLT IDE yet, but many of us
> would appreciate it if someone would get on the ball and write one
> up.
>
> Last I saw JEdit was quite reasonable and usable. Netbeans and
> Treebeard supposedly have some built-in IDE-like features, but I've
> never even seen them, let alone used either. All of these should be
> available on Sourceforge.
>
> Although it has the tremendous moral disadvantage of being
> proprietary, I use SyncRO Soft's <oXygen> for 98% of my XSLT editing,
> anyway. (I use Emacs/psgml, Emacs/nxml, oXygen, and occasionally
> JEdit, BBEdit, or a specialized editor for other XML writing tasks;
> but for XSLT, it's almost always oXygen.)

The Eclipse XSL Developer Tools, part of the WST, aren't bad either -  
particularly if you are using Eclipse for any other work.

> C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen of Black Mesa technologies gave a talk on
> open source tools for XML development in late summer or early fall. I
> know he covered XML editing, but I don't know if he covered
> specialized XSLT IDEs. info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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