I'm very new to XML, and have only spent about
10 minutes looking for something I already know
I want. Pardon me if the availability of what
I want is common knowledge among XML cognoscenti.

My subject line doesn't really do justice to
my meaning.

What I want is an editor for XML that displays
XML with a lot less redundancy.

For example, the XML snippet as follows

=========================
<configuration-file>
  <section name="section1">
    <entry name="name1" value="value1"/>
    <entry name="name2" value="value2"/>
  </section>
  <section name="section2">
    <entry name="someothername" value="someothervalue"/>
  </section>
</configuration-file>
=========================

would be rendered in the hypothetical editor
pane somewhat like this:

=========================
configuration-file
  section name="section1"
    entry name="name1" value="value1"
          name="name2" value="value2"
  section name="section2"
    entry name="someothername" value="someothervalue"
=========================

Two points I'd like to make clear:

(1) I mean something *like* this, not *exactly*
    like this.  I'm flexible.  Really. ;-)

(2) I don't want to hear about how I should
    really read and write straight XML, how
    it's good for my soul, how I won't really
    understand XML if I don't read and write
    XML using standard syntactic conventions, how
    I'm trying to turn XML into some other
    language, or into a new language, or into
    COBOL, or whatever, or how existing XML
    editors, with their color-codings and
    input helpers, make reading and writing
    XML "as easy" as what I'm thinking of, after
    I "get used to it", etc., etc.,

So that you don't waste keystrokes explaining
the unnecessary: I studied computer science
at a decent school, have programmed in C, C++
Lisp, and various other languages, and my
career in software spans several decades,
including work in integrated circuit design
tools and format converters for them.  I even
hand a small hand in defining an electronic
design interchange format (EDIF 1.0) that was
somewhat somewhat in the spirit of XML,
though different in syntax.  In short, I may
be an XML newbie, but I'm far from a newbie
when it comes to many of the issues XML
seems to address.

Even from what little I've read about XML,
I can see that it affords considerable leverage.
It's just that I'm not sold on reading and
writing raw XML (except for self-tutorial
purposes) if I don't have to.  (If I *do*
have to, I'd appreciate knowing why, despite
my whiny and defensive disclaimer point #2,
above.)

This is just a request for information:
is there something like what I want out
there somewhere?  If there isn't, is there
a good reason why not?

If this is colossally boring issue for this
forum, but you still want to help me, a reply
by private e-mail would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Michael Turner
leap@g...