Re: Switching to XML

> >>> Visual Studio has a *very* nice XML editor these days, and they
> >>> don't do SGML...
> >>>
> >>> (ok, ok, that's a joke. It's true, sure, but it's not very
> >>> relevant...)
> >>
> >> Actually it might be for Windows developers wishing to develop
> >> Windows specific sections. How does it work with Docbook?
>
> > It works just fine with any XML inlcluding docbook. It does
> your basic
> > syntax highlighting, autoindenting and things like that.
> You can teach
> > it about things like docbook to get autocomplete on tags and
> > attributes, but I don't know if anybody has done that (I
> certainly haven't).
>
> How is it on the point of not introducing random reformatting
> into the XML source text?

it doesn't do it, period. Just to be clear, it's a XML *source* editor.
Just like emacs, excpet prettier ;-)

(and just for the record, these days even the GUI editors in Visual
Studio generally do a very good job of not breaking your manually tuned
markup, but there is no GUI editor for docbook)

//Magnus