A text editor -- any text editor -- suffices for nroff source. That includes vi, emacs, textpad (MS Windows), SiED (PalmOS), etc. In theory, there exist commercial XML editors for PalmOS, but I suspect thay they are less productive than the ones on other platforms.
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The biggest problem with XML editors is that they are unproductive. Editing XML in all of the ones I've seen goes something like:
1. hunt for mouse 2. move cursor to nondescript icon and click 3. try to figure out what it is 4. type a few characters of text 5. go to step 1
I can't understand why you basically say that nroff can be typed manually, but XML requires an editor.
I've never used an XML editor and have.. what, a couple of dozen drafts, many of them RFCs already. I've used solely xml2rfc for about 1.5 years now. Nor do I have plans to use an XML editor.
Prior to XML I used custom nroff macros which I also edited manually.
A good text editor is your friend. That applies equally to nroff and xml2rfc. For those who want fancy (but maybe not user-friendly) WYSIWYG editors, those exist but are definitely not required.
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