How to use notepad or MSE

[dotcom25]

Help? I need to know how to use MSE (microsoft script editor)/notepad, or be lead to some other IDE I could use...maybe HTML-kit? I am currently using cooktop as my XML editor

[antun]

Any editor will work for coding LZX, but I guess you're probably after some XML-handling features, right?

Apparently one good open-source one that is similar to a lot of other IDEs is Eclipse - you need to use an XML plugin for it, and a good one to use is the one for Ant.

VIM and emacs are both really good, and code-coloring add-ons ship with the LPS for both of those editors.

-Antun

[dotcom25]

Since I'm totally clueless to java, does anyone know who laszlo might be used in XMLSpy? Specificly, I was thinking of buying the home edition (cheapest!). I know the DTD and XSD are provided, so I know maybe I will have to check with them for the offical, but was just wondering if maybe someone had expereince with.

[jtang]

I've used XMLSpy for LZX editing, and it works quite well. You can configure the editor to assign the Laszlo DTD or schema (both of which are provided with LPS, I think in the /tools directory) to any LZX file you edit -- this gives you some pretty nice LZX editing features, including syntax color coding and pop-up context completion menus for valid node, attribute, and value names while you are typing.

Also nice is the "Enhanced grid view", which allows you to neatly collapse and expand any or all of your XML (LZX) document in a hierarchical table for easy reading/management of your nodes and attributes.

I have XMLSpy Professional Edition, but I'm pretty sure that the cheaper versions have the same basic features for XML editing.