Does it actually validate against a DTD / schema, or just highlight syntax?

Michele

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I've had positive experience with EAD using Context, a free text editor: http://www.contexteditor.org/ .

Best,

Raymond Frogner, M.A., M.A.S.
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From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Junte Zhang
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 8:30 AM
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Subject: Re: just getting started

There is a nice list of XML editors (some of which are free) on the 
resources website of the book "XML: Visual QuickStart Guide" by Kevin 
Howard Goldberg.

http://www.kehogo.com/resources

     junte

On 15-11-2010 15:45, Creighton Barrett wrote:
> It looks to me like the download for EditiX is an evaluation copy and there
> is a license fee if you want to use it for more than 30 days:
>
> http://www.editix.com/download.html
>
> Or am I missing a free version somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Creighton Barrett
> Archives Specialist
> Dalhousie University
>
> On 15 November 2010 05:40, Joseph Greene<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> oXygen (http://oxygenxml.com/) seems to be the de facto standard for XML
>> editing (certainly on this list) and is inexpensive, but I recently came
>> across a free alternative that works quite well: http://www.editix.com/ .
>> Can do many of the things that oXygen does (it's schema aware, it can do
>> XSL
>> transformations). May be worth a try.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Joseph Greene
>> Institutional Repository Project Manager
>> 325 James Joyce Library
>> University College Dublin
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>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Bleier, Karen
>> Sent: 12 November 2010 20:20
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>> Subject: Re: just getting started
>>
>> Who can explain IT departments?  They wanted me to use an InfoPath form
>> that
>> they would devise for me, and when I explained why that was not the best
>> path to take, they gave up and said, in essence, "This is already paid for;
>> use it."
>>
>> We'll see how it goes.
>>
>> Karen K. Bleier
>> Librarian
>> 816-822-3418
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Michele R Combs
>> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 1:52 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: just getting started
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, why XML Notepad?   It isn't something I'd recommend
>> for a beginner in XML.
>>
>> Michele
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>> Of
>> <Karen K Bleier>  [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 3:57 PM
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>> Subject: just getting started
>>
>> Foolish question, perhaps, but I'm just setting up my software to begin
>> using EAD to describe my collection.  I've been asked to use XML Notepad.
>>
>> I can't figure out how to download the schema.  I get to this page:
>> http://www.loc.gov/ead/eadschema.html.  What am I meant to do next?
>>
>>  From some of the things I've read, I think perhaps I'm only supposed to
>> point to the schema, not download it, but it's not clear to me how to do
>> that, either.
>>
>> If I've managed to miss the instructions, please, someone point them out
>> to me.  I can find instructions for converting from DTD to schema.  I've
>> been through the archives here, but most of the questions also seem to be
>> about converting from the DTD to the schema.
>>
>> I don't need to convert my EAD records from being DTD-compliant to being
>> schema-compliant, as I have no EAD records yet.  I thought about creating
>> some and then converting them, but XML Notepad doesn't like the DTD; it
>> seems to only accept .xsd extensions.
>>
>> Any help will be most welcome!
>>