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The documentation sources are most conveniently modified with an editor
that has a mode for editing XML, and even more so if it has some awareness
of XML schema languages so that it can know about
<span class="productname">DocBook</span> syntax specifically.
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Note that for historical reasons the documentation source files are named
with an extension <code class="filename">.sgml</code> even though they are now XML
files. So you might need to adjust your editor configuration to set the
correct mode.
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<span class="productname">nXML Mode</span>, which ships with
<span class="productname">Emacs</span>, is the most common mode for editing
<acronym class="acronym">XML</acronym> documents with <span class="productname">Emacs</span>.
It will allow you to use <span class="application">Emacs</span> to insert tags
and check markup consistency, and it supports
<span class="productname">DocBook</span> out of the box. Check the <a class="ulink" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/nxml-mode.html" target="_top">
nXML manual</a> for detailed documentation.
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<code class="filename">src/tools/editors/emacs.samples</code> contains
recommended settings for this mode.
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