XML editor - what can they do?

[Reds]

I there an editor that produce automatic XML code, in the same manner
that Frontpage produce html.

How about the XSL stylesheet? Is there an automatic stylesheet generator
for the corresponding XML?

[Anthony Jones]

"Reds" <rede...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I there an editor that produce automatic XML code, in the same manner
> that Frontpage produce html.

Frontpage produces HTML because the user layouts out a page using a
Graphical interface and HTML can express the layout necessary to reproduce
the desired result.

That works because HTML defines a large set of element names and attributes
that have specific meaning.

However there no defined names or attributes with any specific meaning in
XML so how would an editor know what to create?

>
> How about the XSL stylesheet? Is there an automatic stylesheet generator
> for the corresponding XML?
>

Again you asking an automatic tool to work in a semantic vacuum. The
generator would have to understand the meaning of the XML elements to start
with and would also need some other definition of how such meanings would be
represented visually.

Only then would a an automatic tool have a fighting chance of creating XSL
that can transform the XML. However the effort involved in all this would
be greater than the effort to create the XSL manually.

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Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

[Chris Anderson [MVP-VB]]

Ummm.... VisualStudio? It's always worked for me... Just Add an XML file
to your project.

-ca

[Jason Fay]

XML Notepad 2007 is a nice tool as well.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=72D6AA49-787D-4118-BA5F-4F30FE913628&displaylang=en

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JASON FAY

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