I've been contacted by Progress/Excelon to discuss some new features they are looking into adding in some upcoming version of Stylus Studio.
Most importantly (to me), they are aiming to provide full XML Entity Catalog support to v5 upon my request (OK, I used my Apache hat to motivate them), so that people can edit Forrest document-v11 docs without being peskered with unresolvable doctype declarations.
Related to my enquiry, the Excelon guy also suggested they would be willing to implement "better Cocoon support" inside Stylus, and we can all dream what that might be: sitemap syntax highlighting and completion, pipeline debugging, and whatnot. Their XSLT syntax completion is already quite nice, and they make use of Xalan/J and /C++ internally in their product.
Before starting to influence Excelon into some direction, I'd like to know whether Stylus is in heavy use by the Cocoon community. Please get back to me if you are using Stylus, and if you have compelling Cocoon-related questions/suggestions for them.
I don't know whether this is a Real Thing yet, but it might as well become one if we come up with some good stuff to add.
I have no relationship with Excelon/Progress except that Outerthought is an educational partner, and we are allowed to provide attendees of our XML/XSLT courses with a free copy of the tool.
Cheers, and thanks for any remarks.
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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