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BITFLUX EDITOR IS NOW OPEN SOURCE
After collecting $50,000, "Bitflux open-sources the fully functional Editor (with tables, lists, picture upload etc.) under the Apache License. The official open-sourcing of the Editor will be at OSCOM 2 in Berkeley. A workshop will take place on September 25, 2002. Nevertheless the Editor is already open-source now." Bitflux Editor as part of the Bitflux CSM requires Mozilla, making it useable on Mac, Windows, Linux and other OS.

WORKING IDEA
Using XSLT and CSS, the XML gets transformed into user presentable HTML, the user edits this HTML in place and WYSIWYG style, and changes made are stored back in the XML. While being able to fully concentrate on authoring content, the user cannot create invalid XML. Browser based in-place WYSIWYG editors like Bitflux make editing XML comparable to using a word processor. They "allow common users to edit complex XML documents without knowing anything about XML, without even realising they are editing XML".

OTHER EDITORS
XOPUS is another popular Mozilla-based open source editor widget, and there are plenty more. University of Bristol's Paul Browning has this directory of similar editor widgets. Most are IE/Win only or commercially licensed though.