Cladonia Exchanger XML Editor: Not For DITA

In this review of Cladonia Exchanger XML Editor, Writer’s UA, Autralian technical writing expert Tony Self discovers that not all XML editors are equal.

“Having spent some time working with Exchanger XML Editor,” Self writes, “I can attest to the claim that this is a good, solid, well-featured and extensible XML editor. However, the software is not suitable for authoring documents.”

“A good authoring environment allows the user to focus on the text rather than the code. With Exchanger,” Self writes, “you just can’t escape from the code. I started writing this article in Exchanger, but had to change to an alternative tool, because it became too difficult to compose words. Instead, I found myself struggling to cope with the coding, and this was not just because of a lack of familiarity with the tool.”

Self’s review also includes a section on using Exchanger to transform DocBook and DITA files, a process Self says describes as “quite daunting”.

Read the review.

Visit the Cladonia Exchanger website.

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