Adopting XML: Slide 58

Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web

Tools: The state of play

None of the available XML browsers can even render the demos distributed with any of the other XML browsers.
No WYSIWYG editor is yet available, and, indeed, to build one you would first have to build a working browser.
None of the available XML editing tools appears suitable for creating large or complex document structures.
There are good, established SGML tools, but these may be too expensive or too technically demanding (or both) for most Web production houses.
There are still very considerable market opportunities.

Author: Simon Brooke