Re-announcement of XED: An XML document instance editor

Henry Thompson (ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:01:06 +0100


As shown at XML Developers' Day, and plugged by Tim Bray (thanks Tim,
you cheque is in the post :-), a reminder that the latest alpha
release (we're up to 0.2.1.4) of XED is available for evaluation:

http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/xed.html

>From the CHANGES file:

Changes from v0.2.0 as released:

Bug fixes:
undo of attr operations fixed
]]a> followed by deleting the 'a' now impossible
Resizing works properly
window width and height fit better to available real-estate
rule out control characters in CDATA
allow : in names
move menus out of the way more
move help menu down fully onto screen
forward/backward word at E/BOL works properly

Features:
Modest support for progressive (depth-sensitive) indentation
Catch most forms of window death and give you a save changes dialog
http://... will work on command line
Right button opens tag or attr for editing (thanks to Mike Kay for
suggesting this)