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\label{Authoring_Daxe_Introduction}

\textbf{Daxe Editor Overview}

The LON-CAPA Daxe editor lets authors edit HTML files and LON-CAPA problem files.  
It provides a dynamic graphical user interface with a preview, making it easy to see the resulting web page.  
Daxe understands the LON-CAPA language perfectly, providing a list of elements that can be inserted at the 
cursor position, and checking the file validity in real-time.

Daxe is an alternative to the LON-CAPA ``colorful'' editor (which is the current editor by default).  
Compared to the ``colorful'' editor, Daxe provides a more dynamic interface: elements can be inserted anywhere 
at any time without the need for saving and reloading the document, and the display is updated immediately.  
Daxe also provides a preview that is updated whenever the document is saved.

Daxe is not meant to replace the source editor (which is sometimes called ``plain text editor'', 
or ``XML editor'' even though its syntax is not XML): this text editor can still be useful to fix errors 
in a document syntax, and for authors who prefer to use a simple text editor.  
Note that when Daxe is used, the resulting document will always have a correct syntax, 
so it is a better-suited editor for authors who are not used to the syntax.