[ubuntu-uk] Any recommendations for an xhtml editor

[Sean Miller]

On 5 January 2013 20:33, kpb <kpb at sohcahtoa.org.uk> wrote:

> I was replying to Alan Lord, who was suggesting direct editing of xhtml
> markup. Do you not see the replies in threaded mode? I suggested using a
> 'light' markup with script based conversion to html and my point was that
> this reduces the silly errors you get from direct markup.
>

Except you don't get "silly errors", unless you haven't taken the time to
learn it... markup is easy....

<tag>blah blah blah</tag>

Nothing complicated about that - creating "script based conversion" or
something else is no less complicated - it's just the "something else" you
have to learn, rather than the markup.

Which is simple in the first place.

This was mine, and Alan's, argument against so-called "WYSIWYG editors"...
 they don't work... and, worse, the person who's used them will find it
impossible to understand *why* they haven't worked, because they haven't
learned the basics of HTML.   If they do then learn the basics of HTML, in
order to fathom out the mess the WYSIWYG has made, then they might as well
- from then on - write HTML (or, in this case XHTML) in the first place.

Sean
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