A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-13 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 13. januar 2006 11:44 -0800 Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is my impression, from trying to use it as well. I was troubled by 'yet another embedded text system' that necessitated editing source, which seemed like a stone-age throwback when I abandoned such systems in the mid 19

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Seconded. I *have* used it for a production run and whilst it is not perfect it makes document creation and editing significantly easier than typing 'raw' xml even into a syntax-aware text editor. It is also very helpful for proof reading and commenting (spell checker provided). And the standar

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Seconded. I *have* used it for a production run and whilst it is not perfect it makes document creation and editing significantly easier than typing 'raw' xml even into a syntax-aware text editor. It is also very helpful for proof reading and commenting (spell checker provided). And the st

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > > > --On 13. januar 2006 11:44 -0800 Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is my impression, from trying to use it as well. I was troubled by >> 'yet another embedded text system' that necessitated editing source, >> which seemed like a stone-age throw

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 13. januar 2006 22:40 -0800 Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I haven't used it for "production" yet, but it looks wonderful - not WYSIWYG, but WYSIPU - What You See Is Pretty Useful. Pretty useful compared to text-editing the source code, yes. Compared to WYSIWYG, still primitive, u

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > > > --On 13. januar 2006 22:40 -0800 Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I haven't used it for "production" yet, but it looks wonderful - not >>> WYSIWYG, but WYSIPU - What You See Is Pretty Useful. >> >> Pretty useful compared to text-editing the source

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Joe Touch
Elwyn Davies wrote: > Seconded. > > I *have* used it for a production run and whilst it is not perfect it > makes document creation and editing significantly easier than typing > 'raw' xml even into a syntax-aware text editor. > > It is also very helpful for proof reading and commenting (spell

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Joe Touch wrote: Elwyn Davies wrote: I used to use the Word template but the freedom from hassle of generating the final documents I'm not sure what freedom this means; XML still needs to run through a script, just as Word does. you can't do it from inside Word and in my experien