I commented several years ago: It was flamed pretty badly when first introduced to HN, but I still think Steve Howell's Shpaml (http://shpaml.com/ http://shpam

I commented several years ago: It was flamed pretty badly when first introduced to HN, but I still think Steve Howell's Shpaml (http://shpaml.com/ http://shpaml.com/) completely removes the pain of writing angle brackets and keeping track of closing tags. Plus, it makes writing arbitrary XML really easy, just the thing for writing DocBook, I'll bet. And no need for a specific editor, just use your favorite. I should add that you don't have to run Django to use Shpaml, just the Python script itself.