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Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:28:20 +0200
Subject: Re: xml doc generator web interface
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From: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacretaz@codeconsult.ch>
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Le Mardi, 6 mai 2003, =E0 10:00 Europe/Zurich, Nathan Coast a =E9crit :

> ...
> provide a web interface that (at the server) constructs these xml =20
> documents. All the user sees are pages of text fields, select boxes =20=

> etc and links to other pages (to create child nodes).  It is the =20
> auto-generation of these html 'editor' screens from a dtd or schema =20=

> that I am interested in.  The idea being that the screens created =20
> constrain the data that can be entered so that the generated document =20=

> conforms to the dtd / schema.

There are (at least) two form frameworks under developement that work =20=

with Cocoon:

Woody: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=3DWoodyIntro

XmlForm: =20
http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/howto/xmlform-wizard/howto-xmlform-=20
wizard.html

I don't think they are able to generate forms from schema directly, but =20=

you might want to take a look at they're both fairly adaptable.

--
   Bertrand Delacretaz (codeconsult.ch, jfor.org)
   XML, java, XSLT, Cocoon, FOP, mentoring/programming/teaching


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