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Re: Much appreciation
by Masert on Saturday 27/Aug/2005, @07:20

Isn't there also a K-XML-Tool?

Why do it with Quanta?

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Re: Much appreciation
by Andras Mantia on Saturday 27/Aug/2005, @08:15

Why not?

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Re: Much appreciation
by Eric Laffoon on Saturday 27/Aug/2005, @19:48

There is KMXL editor, which can also operate as a plugin within Quanta. It breaks everything into nodes you can view, but it doesn't seem to particulary flow. Last I checked it also didn't do structural DTD based validation, custom editing toolbars, templates, entities and auto completion among other things. For working with relatively static files it is a nice tool with a tree mode, although Quanta does have a structure tree too. There is also Syntext Serena which can visually work with XSLT, but it's a commercial tool with a license cost to use it for any purpose. Kate can also be used with much of the functionality of Quanta but Quanta adds the toolbars and dialogs and can also use Kate's custom plugins.

So the answer to your question is that Quanta, with the docbook editing tools, is the most specialized tool to ease development on KDE, unless of course you want to buy a commercial visual tool. BTW Quanta will be competitive with that tool in KDE 4.

I would also like to say that if you're saying "Quanta is an HTML editor so why use it for Docbook" then I would say that is flat wrong. Quanta is not an HTML editor. It's an SGML/XML editor. It just has the most support packages for HTML, but even HTML isn't HTML any more. It's XHTML, XML, PHP and a lot of other things. Because people may think of Quanta as an HTML editor, like for instance NVU, we need to bring to their attention that it is designed with a broader scope. If we had made an HTML editor in the 3x series we would have been engineering future obsolescence.

So there is a reason to use Quanta for Docbook as well as a reason to make people aware that it has advantages.

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