Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-xml-cocoon-dev-archive@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 18192 invoked by uid 500); 7 Apr 2003 16:40:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 18090 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2003 16:40:18 -0000 Received: from gate1.stjude.org (192.55.208.11) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 7 Apr 2003 16:40:18 -0000 Received: by gate1.stjude.org; (8.9.3/1.3/10May95) id LAA581164; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:39:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from somewhere by smtpxd Message-ID: <601F6322AD71D5118D6C0003472515290660D1E1@sjmemexc1.stjude.org> From: "Hunsberger, Peter" To: "'cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org'" Subject: RE: [RT] the quest for the perfect template language Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:39:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Don Saxton wrote: > I am surprised at the scarcity of wysiwyg template programs. > Even macromedia, who owns a server solution and has the most > popular html editor, seems very static aside from flash. > While xsl seems hard to some of us, I think there are some > other more fundamentally hard problems to solve in achieving > wysiwyg for any language. One nice thing in using mostly fixed XSLT combined with XML templates is that you can do mostly WYSIWYG with XML/XSLT editors like Stylus, eXcelon and XML Spy if your target is HTML. I say "mostly" because it's sometimes you end up flipping back and forth between views to see how things are progressing, it's usually not direct editing of the visual result. None-the-less it can be a pretty efficient way to work.