Well, uptil now i've been testing XMLSpy, oXygen and Exchanger. Here's
my toughts and request for comments:
XMLSpy is realy a heavy-weight, it seems to do everything. Too many
things... And it's a lot expensive than the others, so the choice is
to buy one XMLSpy or 4/5 of the others... And i really don't like
mainstream software, reflexes of my revolutionary youth :)
I was tending to oXygen due to the positive mentions here on list. It
seems very good from the developer point of view, i really like that
trang thing, specially from learning the various languages by
converting one into another. HOWEVER it seems not so good from the
non-XSL-expert data-entry point of view. There's only the Tree Editor
that seems to me both confusing and hard to work. And this data-entry
thing is important.
Exchanger seems to be a lot better. I really like the way one can
create types (XML/Schema pieces) and then edit them. That's that what
i had in mind since the beggining, and i didn´t find the way to do it
in the other editors (not that don't exist, i just couldn't find it).
And i really like that Outliner/Editor/Tree Viewer for the data entry
thing. It seems to me a good balance beteween development capabilities
and data-entry facilities.
So i'll like to ear some comments from you guys, besides "then go with
Exchanger if you liked it", mainly because i ddidn´t test *that* much
and i'm probably missing something around the way...
Thanks, and excuse the bad english...
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:30:47 -0500, Wendell Piez
<wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi Antonio,
At 11:59 AM 1/6/2005, you wrote:
Also, i had a look at Relax NG but didn't understand what it is. It
seems a alternative to Schema? A replacement for DTD? However it's not
a W3C standard, or is it?
The question is off-topic :->, but yes, all the above.
It's not a W3C standard, but it is an ISO standard -- in some circles, this
is regarded as better.
Last, someone off the list point me to XMLEditor from Cladonia
http://www.cladonia.com/index.htm does anybody know this?
Haven't tried this one lately, but from what I saw back when, I think
you'll find it more like oXygen than like Authentic.
Lightweight forms interfaces are a bit slow to come, largely because there
are so many other ways to go about it. (Web forms work if you have the
architecture in place. Spreadsheets can even work these days.) And platform
issues. I wonder if there are any XForms front ends you could use. Or
Microsoft's InfoPath (quite a nice product, I'm told), if you can afford
the cost/lock-in....
Good luck,
Wendell
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