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== Documentation == | == Documentation == |
Revision as of 13:02, 8 June 2010
Vex is a Visual Editor for XML that hides the raw XML tags from the user, providing instead a word processor like interface. Vex uses standard DTD files to define document types and CSS stylesheets to define document layout. Vex contains definitions for DocBook and DITA. To edit other XML formats only a DTD and a CSS are needed.
Vex is based on the Eclipse platform, the same platform used to build the popular Eclipse Java development environment:
- Vex leverages many of the mature plug-ins that make up the Eclipse Java IDE such as the CVS interface, document searching and bookmarking facilities, and searchable help system.
- The Eclipse platform implements a sophisticated plug-in architecture, allowing Vex to be extended with third-party or custom, in-house plug-ins.
- Vex is available with native look-and-feel for many platforms, including Windows, Linux/GTK, and Macintosh OS-X/Carbon.
- Java developers using the Eclipse IDE can instal Vex into their IDE as a plug-in, making it easy to maintain software documentation or other XML files with Vex.
- Vex is reusable: The Vex editor widget is available as a pure Java, cross-platform component with bindings SWT. Developers can re-use this widget, for example as an RCP application.
Download
Vex requires the Web Tools XML feature to be installed.
- Integration builds
- Continuous Integration builds (may or may not be stable): provide P2 update site to install the latest version
Documentation
Contributing
There are numerous ways to contribute beyond code contributions. The Vex user manual is maintained on the wiki. Please feel free to update and keep it current. If you want to contribute code, please use a team project set to bring in the code you will need to make changes to the Vex code base.
Other Resources
- DRAFT Plan
- Committers and Contributors - Resources for those interested in contributing and working with the Vex source code.
- Development Resources
- CVS Howto
- WTP Build