Re: psgml - support for XML namespaces and schemas?

[Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com>]

"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> Brierton <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:
>> worrying acually - I work with XML constantly, and PSGML is just
>> lovely (although maintaining my catalog can be a bit hairy); but
>> increasingly hybrid documents relying on namespaces, and
>> therefore schemas for validation, are becoming the norm, and if
>> PSGML doesn't get those features then I'll no longer be able to
>> use it. And then what WILL I use? (That's rhetorical - not
>
> You can try out Emacs' built-in sgml-mode which is much less
> featureful than PSGML but doesn't require anything like a DTD.  The
> version that comes with Emacs-21.2 is severely under-featured in
> many respects, but the version in the development code
>
> http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/lisp/textmodes/sgml-mode.el?rev=HEAD
>
> supposedly works with Emacs-21.2 and provides XML support and
> indentation.
>
> I'd be interested to hear any comment about it,

I tried this out with Emacs 21.2 and it seems to work well.  The
indentation and fontification satisfy most of what I want from a mode
since my editing is usually casual.