[osis-core] OSIS editor

[Harry Plantinga]

Some talk was batted about at the Toronto meeting
on modifying OpenOffice.org Writer to act as an
OSIS editor.  One issue is how you would "validate" 
markup as it is entered with the Writer interface.

I thought y'all might be interested in the following
Microsoft tidbit as it pertains to this issues:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/xdocs/default.asp

Basically, it sounds to me like an XML editor that
supports schemas and allows you to build "rich 
forms" for data entry.  It will be a part of Microsoft 
Office starting mid-2003.

It remains to be seen whether it will be as easy
to use as a word processor for editing OSIS documents,
but I'm not all that hopeful -- it'll probably be 
a lot like XMetaL or XML Spy.  Though a debugged, 
faster XML Spy could actually be a fairly decent
environment for OSIS editing by casual users.

But my suspicion is that to make OSIS editing truly
easy and error-proof, it will take a custom 
application with user-interface elements designed 
especially for OSIS.