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

If I can't make it then I hope that Florian, Hogler, or Igor could make it.   Long term I think it is a better fit than wtp, but that is my opinion.

Dave

On 10/12/2010 03:27 PM, David Green wrote:
David,

Your proposal sounds great.  Vex is a great fit for Mylyn Docs, and visa versa.  Would you be able to join a Mylyn conference call to discuss the particulars?  If so please feel free to add an item to the agenda and call in: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Meetings

David

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David Green
VP of Engineering, Tasktop
Committer, Eclipse Mylyn

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:25 AM, David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 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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