xml editor for clients
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- vaxorcist0
CDATA all the way!
But seriously, I built PHP/mySQL systems that output XML, and it worked though clients had a way of wanting to randomly change structure, thinking that it should be as easy to re-order things as Powerpoint... they just didn't get the idea of information design for quite a while... and when they finally got it, they felt resentful, saying the designers had straightjacketed them into a system....
clients kept wanting to add subheads and bullet points and footnotes upon footnotes.... and more and longer photo captions that would break the layout.... it all seemed like endless CYA to me, they were more worried about not saying EVERYTHING that information heirichy and actual priorities meant nothing.... at one meeting a client guy said "why can't I just make everything bold!"
so, beware culture differences!