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Re: epcEdit
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: epcEdit
- From: Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:09:29 +0900
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Dennis Grace <dgrace@us.ibm.com> writes:
> Greetings, all,
>
> I'm looking for any information anyone here might have on epcEdit (beyond
> what's at their Website, of course). Particularly, if you use epcEdit, have
> you had any problems with editor. What do you like, dislike about epcEdit
> and epc?
I've used epcEdit and found it to work very well. It's got a decent
interface, and I think if you're working with other writers who aren't
comfortable using Emacs/PSGML, it ought to appeal to them especially.
Dislikes:
* non-Free software
Likes:
* fast, and can handle very large documents without running into
performance problems
* full regex search-and-replace
* cross-platform (Linux, Solaris, Windows)
* WYSIWYG editing of CALS/OASIS Exchange Table Model and HTML tables
* control over character formatting during on-screen editing (but
using a non-standard stylesheet language -- not CSS)
* works with full SGML as well as XML
* support for SGML Open/OASIS catalog files
* can display railroad diagrams for any element in a DTD
http://www.logopoeia.com/xml/images/railroad.png
* automatic population of browsable lists of valid ID values for
attributes whose type is IDREF (like DocBook's linkend and
endterm attributes)
http://www.logopoeia.com/images/idrefBrowseEpcEdit.png
* Unicode support
* support for drag-and-drop of text and elements
* Tcl source code for the user interface provided
Morphon also has some of those features.
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