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At 2018-05-17T22:51:30+01:00, Peter Flynn wrote:

> I have been trying to make it clear for some time that nXML is *not* an
> editor suitable for writing XML documents.

Well, it is a part of Emacs, and I have read good things about it, as in

http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/h/2044

http://www.xmlhack.com/read.php_item=2061

and

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/09/18/NXML

Therefore, I thought it was reasonable to use it for editing XML.

> What you want is psgml, which has the full set of document-editing
> features (completion, insertion, encapsulation, deletion, change,
> splitting, attribute editing, etc). Install it from your Emacs repos (I
> think it's in marmelade).

Yes, I have used PSGML quite a bit for editing DocBook SGML, and found
it very nice.  But, for a few years, it seemed unmaintained, though now
it seems to be having some recent commits at the ELPA Git repository.

> There is a separate xxml-mode.el which provides even more editing
> features.

I didn't know about this; thanks for telling me.

> But psgml only works with DTDs (XML DTDs as well as SGML DTDs) as it has
> no knowledge of RNG or W3C schemas. This is usually not a problem for
> the document-world (books, journals, articles), where RNG/W3C are rarely
> used yet.

If one wants to publish a book with a commercial publisher, one may have
to use a DTD.  However, I am planning to release my work under a
combination of the Gnu FDL and the GNU GPL, so I will have to take care
of the publishing myself, whatever "publishing" may mean here (it will
certainly include putting the product on a public Web site).  Given
that, I have considered two schemas, the DocBook schema, and the
`mathbook' schema (http://mathbook.pugetsound.edu/).  Both of them use
RELAX NG as their primary schema language.  However, neither of these
schemas really suits my needs, so I am trying to write a simple schema
that will do for me.

> When I win the Lottery I will fund an elisp expert to modify psgml
> a) to support RNG/W3C;
> b) to add a few features like element-join; and
> c) merge the features of xxml-mode and fix a few trivial buglets.
>
> Unless some valiant elisp hacker cares to step up to the plate...

That'd be good!

Thanks,
Raghu.

PS: Thanks also for the book `Understanding SGML and XML tools'.  I have
often found it a useful reference.

--
N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/

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