Now yer talkin' Buffy! Yeah that's tricky stuff to manage. What I really meant to say is that the most sofisticated tools I've seen for <XYZ>ML is XML-Spy that you probably know and a tree feature on WebSphere. Perhaps you're wanting one of the big boys to design a new generation of tools...
If it's a consolation, before the stuff I'm doing now, I spent the summer/autumn literally dragging through the conversion of a large number of diversely badly written VB6 projects from Sybase to Oracle.
Imagine the endless troubles cropping up! The PL and I automated what we could and worked out routines and best practices but it isn't easy to keep all team members sticking to them, 'specially when some of them aren't brilliant and some are even COBOLmen trying to update their skills. Over here they say "mal comune mezzo gaudio".
At the moment my difficulties are happily more on the mathematical side.
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Also, there are a few of us around here who can still write hairy data analysis selects from scratch, but the younger kids all start with generated selects built with SQLServer EntManager or similar tools.
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Even if you don't do the actual coding in assembler there's no replacement for really knowing the bedrock.
I've used a variety of tools and each one has it's limits. I've never used Dreamweaver but I agree, I just can't tolerate dumb programs that think they're more intelligent than the user, it makes you loose your patience, doesn't it? TOAD has loads of shortcomings, according to version, I found PLSQL Developer quite good, Uncle Bill's VC++ 6.0 has many advantages on Win32 but for navigating code and getting ends to meet I've seen nothing better so far than JBuilder.
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Thanks for the tip Q, I'll check it out...
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