Announcement: Xin - a new open source xml editor for Windows

[Kevin L]

Hi,

I have a new sourceforge project up at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xined. It's an xml editor designed to be user-friendly and fast.

Right now it has a short list of features including full unicode support, syntax highlighting, tabbed mdi, and xml validation. It's under active development and more features will arrive as I become more familiar with various xml technologies.

It's for Win98-XP only. The download size is under a meg. The current status is alpha 0.1, but I've been using it to develop xhtml pages fine.

Hopefully it's of use to some people in the group. Feedback would be most welcome.

 

[Alexander Schatten]

It's for Win98-XP only. The download size is under a meg. The current status is alpha 0.1, but I've been using it to develop xhtml pages fine.

I am always interested in a good XML Editor, but I also felt that it is a complete aberration to develop an platform dependent editor for a system that is inherently platform and system independent. It is, as far as I see it, completely against the idea of XML.

so sorry for this one, bit Windows only is :-((

Alex

 

[Kevin L]

I am always interested in a good XML Editor, but I also felt that it is a complete aberration to develop an platform dependent editor for a system that is inherently platform and system independent. It is, as far as I see it, completely against the idea of XML.

so sorry for this one, bit Windows only is :-((

Alex

I don't think coding a platform-dependent editor runs contrary to XML's principles. What's important is that the editor must assist in generating valid xml documents in a format compatible across platforms.

My editor right now is very unicode-centric, writing and reading encodings from UTF-8 to UTF-32, allowing for big-endian and little-endian encodings. It doesn't do much, but what it does I try to stick to the spirit of the xml, however subjective that is.

Unfortunately the decision was made from the start not to support non-Windows platforms. I wanted to keep the program fast and small within my coding capabilities.

Thanks for the feedback, but I'm sorry to say that it probably won't ever meet your needs.

Kevin

 

[Joachim Beckers]

hi,

Hi,

I have a new sourceforge project up at
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xined

maybe you should think about renaming your project
xined is the eXtended InterNEt Daemon, a very important unix/linux background service it's quite confusing

regards

joachim

 

[Kevin L]

hi,

maybe you should think about renaming your project
xined is the eXtended InterNEt Daemon, a very important unix/linux background service it's quite confusing

regards

joachim

Shouldn't that be xinetd?

The two programs are different enough (daemon vs client app, unix vs windows, & etc) that I'm really not worried.

Kevin

 

[Joachim Beckers]

hi,

[..]

Shouldn't that be xinetd?

you're completely right
sorry

The two programs are different enough (daemon vs client app, unix vs windows, & etc) that I'm really not worried.

Kevin

regards

joachim