[mylyn-dev] Vex Editor for Mylyn Docs project

[David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx>]

 I've talked briefly about this with a couple of Vex committers.  And 
Mik suggested I bring this up on the mylyn-dev mailing list as well.   
I've copied the existing Vex committers on this message as well.   The 
Vex project is a Visual Editor for XML documents.  In particularl 
document oriented XML files like DocBook, XHTML, DITA, etc.   It can be 
used to allow a WYSIWYG editing experience with out having to know the 
underlying tags.   DocBook is one of it's main uses, and it also support 
DITA out of the box as well.  It uses CSS stylesheets to help control 
the rendering.    It fits in the same category as Mylyn WikiText editor, 
as it allows for a Single Sourcing method to documentation.  The 
resulting files produced are strictly XML, and can be checked into a 
source code control system, allowing multiple people to collaborate on 
the files.

Vex has been a WTP Incubator project for several years, and slowly has 
grown a dedicated committer base.   The project is shooting for a Spring 
graduation, but with the advent of the new Mylyn top level project, and 
the overal scope of Vex, I would suggest that the Documentation sub 
project might actually be a better place for the Vex project itself.   
It seems to fit more into the scope there, as we Web Tools while it 
houses the XML projects, Vex itself is more about enabling the 
collaboration and generation of documentation, and the people that are 
typically interested in Vex are those working on documentation or 
articles for publication (i.e. news articles, books, etc).

Here are some relevant links:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP/VisualEditorForXML

The CI Build and FindBugs reports can be found on hudson:

https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/view/WTP/job/cbi-wtp-inc.vex/

There is a P2 update site that can be used to install the latest 
versions as well, archived from the vex CI build.

Dave