What a hassle. I hate it when software companies remove useful features from a product and release it as new and improved. Microsoft is particularly bad about this, eg. Visio, Visual Basic, etc.

I just got off the phone with Macromedia support. Having just bought Studio MX 2004, I was rolling up my sleeves to do some XML coding in my favourite IDE (DMX of course) and I was looking for the tag inspector panel to browse my document structure. Lo and behold, it's gone! Now all that's left is the attributes view of the tag inspector. Apparently, the tag tree view was not deemed useful by the user community.

How can this be? Many major IDEs (such as Eclipse) offer a hierarchical view of your document to make it easier to navigate and edit your code. This is especially useful in XML and HTML where your document has to follow a hierarchical or tree structure by definition.

I already submitted a feature request to Macromedia to bring this back in DMX 2004, but I'm not holding my breath. It doesn't solve my immediate problem; I guess I have to find an external editor for XML/XSLT stuff.

Maybe some savvy programmer out there will develop an XML extension for Dreamweaver that lets you browse your documents hierarchically again.

(See Macromedia's site to find out what I'm talking about...)
www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/htmljava/migrating_hs_to_dwmx/migrating_hs_to_dwmx06.html