Re: [mylyn-dev] Vex Editor for Mylyn Docs project

[Mik Kersten <mik@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could we add this to this Thursday's meeting agenda and have some of the
Vex folks join?

Also, could someone post links to some recent Vex screenshots?

Cheers,

Mik

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Dr. Mik Kersten
Tasktop CEO, Mylyn Lead, http://twitter.com/mik_kersten

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylyn-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylyn-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Carver
> Sent: October-08-10 9:25 AM
> To: mylyn-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Igor Jacy Lino Campista; Florian Thienel; Holger Voormann
> Subject: [mylyn-dev] Vex Editor for Mylyn Docs project
>
>   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
>
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