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eGroups.com: Tcl XML Discussion List, WISH! Open Source XML Editor

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 24, 1999

[ Thanks to Cameron Laird for this
link. ]

>”If I had a single wish as departing moderator it would
be that we have a
>project to develop an open source editor for XML.

“Wish no longer… an Open Source XML Editor is here right now:
– Swish!

“My company, Zveno, recently decided to release our editor as an
Open Source Software project. We haven’t announced it yet, because
we’ve been pretty busy with other projects, but the source code is
available right now….”

“Firstly, Swish is written in Tcl/Tk. Some people like Tcl, some
don’t… but one has to choose an implementation language and Tcl
provides a number of practical advantages – simplicity, good GUI
toolkit, extensibility….”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

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