[xsl] Re: Time for an XDE?? (JDE for XML)

[Paul Kinnucan <paulk at mathworks dot com>]

At 01:40 PM 12/26/00 -0800, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
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>OK.  Just a thought.
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>Is it time to create a project dedicated to holding XML technologies for
Emacs?
>There is a lot of overlap in this area I think.
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>- - xslt abstraction
>- - schema/dtd validation integration
>- - font-lock
>- - psgml is broken and hasn't been worked on in a while.
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>Of course it would be really cool to see something like
>xde.sourceforge.net... at least so that everyone knows where to go for XML
Emacs
>information.

Hi Kevin,

I have put together an XML Authoring Environment for Emacs (XAE, former
TPE) that is very similar in concept to the JDE, namely to save Emacs users
the considerable grief of finding, downloading, assembling, and mastering
the pre-existing, independently developed components needed to turn
Emacs/XEmacs into an effective XML authoring environment. The XAE
integrates psgml, Michael Kay's saxon stylesheet engine, and Norm Walsh's
Docbook dtd and associated stylesheets and adds a menu with options for
displaying and applying stylesheets to XML documents and for displaying the
Docbook and XAE user guides. 

The XAE has builtin support for creating Docbook instances but is by no
means confined to them.

I have been using the XAE over the last month to write XML documents at
work and to convert the JDE doc to XML. It works quite well and offers a
level of functionality quite close to commercial XML authoring tools such
as Arbortext's EPIC.

I plan to create a page for the XAE in the next few days where you can
download the XAE. The distribution file will include everything you need
for the XAE: psgml, saxon, and the Docbook DTD and stylesheets. The only
holdup at this point is completing a quick start guide and installation
instructions. I expect to have these done in a few days.

I will post an announcement to the relevant lists as soon as the XAE
website is ready.

- Paul

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