Yes - unless someone corrects me :-)
>If the above is accurate then my intention is for this to be a
>tree-based editor. With DTD elements acting as "objects" that can be
>manipulated sensibly.
Fine. The exciting thing about XML is that this is impossible in HTML and
so the tree-based philosophy opens up completely new worlds.
>
>> It should support ID/IDREF and xml:link in a graphical manner (e.g.
>>dragon-drop)
>>
>
>I'm not sure what this.
An IDREF attribute points to a unique ID attribute in the same document.
Essentially a link. Look at the source of rec.xml - some examples there.
xml:link allows hyperlinks. How are you going to introduce them into the
document?
>
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>>Note that there is a lot of experience in the SGML (sic) community about
>>creating editors and it's worth talking to experienced people and getting
>>demos to find out exactly what the range of things you really want is.
>>>
>
>Can you suggest a forum in which I could raise this issue?
Here. I have :-). Creating an XML editor is absolutely mainstream for
XML-DEV. The point is that many people reading this list will have experience.
[...]
>
>I have reliability concerns about swing. In principle though I do agree
>with you.
I have bugs. If that means the same thing...
P.