@xref{Outline Mode}.
@end iftex
+@cindex nXML mode
+@cindex mode, XML
+@cindex mode, nXML
+@findex nxml-mode
Emacs has other major modes for text which contains ``embedded''
-commands, such as @TeX{} and La@TeX{} (@pxref{TeX Mode}); HTML, SGML,
-and XML (@pxref{HTML Mode}); and Groff and Nroff (@pxref{Nroff Mode}).
-In addition, you can edit formatted text in WYSIWYG style (``what you
-see is what you get''), using Enriched mode (@pxref{Formatted Text}).
+commands, such as @TeX{} and La@TeX{} (@pxref{TeX Mode}); HTML and
+SGML (@pxref{HTML Mode}); XML (@pxref{Top, nXML Mode,,nxml-mode, nXML
+Mode}); and Groff and Nroff (@pxref{Nroff Mode}). In addition, you
+can edit formatted text in WYSIWYG style (``what you see is what you
+get''), using Enriched mode (@pxref{Formatted Text}).
@cindex ASCII art
If you need to edit pictures made out of text characters (commonly
* Text Mode:: The major modes for editing text files.
* Outline Mode:: Editing outlines.
* TeX Mode:: Editing input to the formatter TeX.
-* HTML Mode:: Editing HTML, SGML, and XML files.
+* HTML Mode:: Editing HTML and SGML files.
* Nroff Mode:: Editing input to the formatter nroff.
* Formatted Text:: Editing formatted text directly in WYSIWYG fashion.
* Text Based Tables:: Editing text-based tables in WYSIWYG fashion.
Ref@TeX{}. @inforef{Top,, reftex}.
@node HTML Mode
-@section SGML, XML, and HTML Modes
+@section SGML and HTML Modes
@cindex SGML mode
@cindex HTML mode
-@cindex XML mode
@cindex mode, SGML
@cindex mode, HTML
-@cindex mode, XML
@findex sgml-mode
@findex html-mode
-@findex xml-mode
- The major modes for SGML, XML, and HTML provide indentation support
-and commands for operating on tags. XML mode is actually identical to
-SGML mode (to be precise, @code{xml-mode} is an alias for
-@code{sgml-mode}), because XML is a strict subset of SGML. HTML mode
-is a slightly customized variant of SGML mode.
-
-@vindex sgml-xml-mode
- In XML, every opening tag must have an explicit closing tag. When
-the variable @code{sgml-xml-mode} is non-@code{nil}, the tag insertion
-commands described below always insert explicit closing tags as well.
-When you visit a file, Emacs determines whether it is XML by examining
-the file contents, and sets @code{sgml-xml-mode} accordingly.
+ The major modes for SGML and HTML provide indentation support and
+commands for operating on tags. HTML mode is a slightly customized
+variant of SGML mode.
@table @kbd
@item C-c C-n
@cindex mode, nXML
@findex nxml-mode
@cindex XML schema
- Emacs also provides a more advanced mode for editing XML
-documents, called nXML mode (@code{nxml-mode}). nXML mode is aware of
-many existing XML schema, and uses them to provide completion of XML
-elements via @kbd{C-@key{RET}} or @kbd{M-@key{TAB}}, as well as
-``on-the-fly'' validation of XML, with errors highlighted via Font
-Lock (@pxref{Font Lock}). It is described in its own manual.
-@xref{Top, nXML Mode,,nxml-mode, nXML Mode}.
+ The default mode for editing XML documents is called nXML mode
+(@code{xml-mode} or @code{nxml-mode}). This is a powerful major mode
+that can recognize many existing XML schema and use them to provide
+completion of XML elements via @kbd{C-@key{RET}} or @kbd{M-@key{TAB}},
+as well as ``on-the-fly'' XML validation with error highlighting. It
+is described in its own manual. @xref{Top, nXML Mode,,nxml-mode, nXML
+Mode}.
+
+@vindex sgml-xml-mode
+ However, you can also use SGML mode to edit XML, since XML is a
+strict subset of SGML. In XML, every opening tag must have an
+explicit closing tag. When the variable @code{sgml-xml-mode} is
+non-@code{nil}, the tag insertion commands described above always
+insert explicit closing tags as well. When you visit a file in SGML
+mode, Emacs determines whether it is XML by examining the file
+contents, and sets @code{sgml-xml-mode} accordingly.
@node Nroff Mode
@section Nroff Mode