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I'd like to recommend this article to TWs who might be starting to think
about future program needs, and to anyone who might be interested in
doing a study, specifically on HATT. (I know they've been done in the
past, but there are gaps in the information, plus recent developments.)
W/o going into a detailed critique, I'd reformat the tables in terms of
strengths (e.g., which did what or who met "3 of 5" criteria) to make
them clearer, but generally it was very useful.
I'd be interested in doing a HATT study in conjunction with others.
Please contact me if you'd be interested.
Kathleen
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Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:56 PM
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Subject: [HATT] ARTICLE: Choosing an XML Editor (XML.org)
I thought that this would be of interest...
It's from the 15 April 2005 XML.org Daily Newslink.
With the increasing popularity of XML, the number of XML editors is also
increasing and it can be difficult to choose the editor that best suits
a particular user or task. The aim of this Information Paper is to
provide an introduction to different features XML editors can have and
the extent to which these features are implemented in various editors.
It also presents the result of an evaluation exercise where different
user groups tried a number of the editors. The paper first outlines the
different types of XML editors that are available and their main
characteristics. Thirty different features of XML editors that were
identified as useful by the benchmarking exercise (van den Broek 2004)
are then outlined, followed by tables showing how these are implemented
within different editors. Finally, the twenty editors evaluated in the
benchmarking exercise are presented, highlighting the editors which were
preferred by four different types of users. Which editor you choose to
use depends on a number of factors.
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