Re: [xsl] suggestion for an xml editor, please?

Subject: Re: [xsl] suggestion for an xml editor, please?
From: "Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:24:26 -0000
An option:
  You say you are scanning / ocrbing?
  If you have an html output optionb&
 Use Saxon with the tidy option to strip out all attributes / css / script
etc., then rebuild with the markup you want.
    I find that route preferable

Hth

On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 at 18:55, Trevor Nicholls trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you all for a very useful discussion.
>
> Our technical author uses structured FrameMaker for the heavy lifting but
> for quick and casual editing I have been using emacs and sublime text. I've
> had the nxml emacs module enabled which is XML-aware but I had never heard
> of the relax-NG option, so thank you Dave for that.
>
>  It set me to hunting what might exist by way of similar packages for
> Sublime Text, and I found one called Exalt. It doesn't force only valid
> input but it does have a single keystroke validation function which
> highlights any validation errors. I didnbt have to do anything smart by
way
> of setup; if the DTD or XSD referenced in the document header exists in the
> local filesystem it just uses it.
>
> cheers
> T
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Flynn peter@xxxxxxxxxxx <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:45
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] suggestion for an xml editor, please?
>
> On 17/08/2022 14:06, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen cmsmcq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> [...]
> > At the moment I mostly use nxml mode, with key bindings modified to be
> > closer to those of psgml mode.  (Are the psgml mode bindings better
> > designed?  Or did I just get used to them first?  Possibly.)
>
> I believe so, but as they can be rebound it's not very important.
> I prefer psgml's way of presenting the attribute panel, but that's
> probably a personal feeling.
>
> The biggest stumbling block is that on current installations, psgml simply
> won't execute: "xml-mode" has been grabbed by nxml, and my elisp skillz are
> not adequate to resolve this.
>
> Peter
>
>
> --
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