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Adam Van den HovenSubject: Feature Request
Author: Adam Van den Hoven
Date: 27 Apr 2002 07:53 PM
I have an idea for a feature that I'd like to take the time to propose.

There are all sorts of controls available for editing XML in as a tree. If you go to DevX you will find a series of articles that tell you how to create your own XML editor using Swing. Studio itself does a good job of that sort of thing.

There are also all sorts of WYSIWYG HTML editors to be found.

What I have never found is an XML editor designed for prose type documents (although I understand XMLSpy does something like it). NewsML is a good example of what I mean, although there are others.

It would be nice if we could take a Schema doc and use it as the starting point in creating such editor. You'd want to be able to distinguish between prose and metadata sections. Distinguish between block and inline elements (to use an HTML idea) and section division or what ever. Elements would need to have arbitrary complexity controlled in a dialog box or a palate (a la Adobe Photoshop). You'd also want to have the ability to set behavior based on the value of some node. You'd also want be able to set up context menus, context help, toolbars.

You'd want to provide an embedable control, either Java or ActiveX or something that you could use reliably on either browsers or in a compiled application.

Just a thought,
Adam

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Minollo I.Subject: Re: Feature Request
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 27 Apr 2002 08:09 PM
Adam,
this is an interesting request; I'm not familiar with NewsML, I'll make
sure to spend some time playing with it.

As a general comment, Stylus Studio has so far tried to position itself
more as an XSLT/XPath development environment than as an XML authoring tool
(where several other applications already do an excellent job).
Our general strategy in the next months is to start focusing intensively on
support for MSXML-XSLT based debugging, XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0
and, of course, XML-to-HTML wysiwyg.

So, we'll definitely internally discuss your suggestion, and we'll play
with other tools offering something similar to the functionality you are
describing, but I fear design and implementation of a functionality like
this will remain an unplanned activity until the big features mentioned
above will be available in the product.

Thanks,
Minollo

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Tony GoodinSubject: Re: Feature Request
Author: Tony Goodin
Date: 20 May 2002 02:42 PM
Focusing "over the next few months" on XML-to-HTML wysiwyg?
Is the mid-May 4.1 beta still going to happen, and include WYSIWYG?

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Minollo I.Subject: Re: Feature Request
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 20 May 2002 03:05 PM

>...
>Focusing "over the next few months" on XML-to-HTML wysiwyg?
>Is the mid-May 4.1 beta still going to happen, and include WYSIWYG?

Yes, even if, as it always happens with releases scheduled by mid-month, it
will happen at the end of the month.

Are you interested in becoming an XML-to-HTML wysiwyg beta tester? Beta
won't be open to everyone initially.

Minollo

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Tony GoodinSubject: Re: Feature Request
Author: Tony Goodin
Date: 23 May 2002 09:16 AM
Yes. We are very interested. Besides using it to maintain the stylesheets driving our online information service (www.judici.com), we are seeking a WYSIWYG tool suitable for use as a report writer. Not that you necessarily want to compete with CrystalReports, but they are showing no signs of any intent to make their product operate on XML or produce XSL.

 
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