Advantages

This chapter demonstrated how to use an XML editor to build a customized editing environment. The main advantages of this solutions are as follows :

• It's fast and easy. The editor does most of the job already, so you only need to customize it for your DTD.

• The user interface is simple and intuitive. It looks like a word processor, which is very familiar to clerical personal.

• The result is an XML document that you can pass to other XML tools such as parsers and XSL processors (see Chapter 4).

In short, the editor is a great tool to create XML documents. Thanks to customization, you can be sure it creates the correct documents.