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RE: xsl editor needed

• From: Steve Schow <sjs@p...>
• To: "'Don Park'" <donpark@q...>, "'XML Dev'" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:58:46 -0700

Frankly, what the world is going to need are tools that you use to
"styleize" XML....  Not "XSL Editors".  It may be that XSL is being used
under the covers to "style-ize", and as such....you would effectively be
editing XSL with the tool.   But rather than make a tool that just makes it
easy to edit XSL....how about a tool that you use to think graphically about
the layout you desire and then it figures out what XSL to use?

-steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Park [mailto:donpark@q...]
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 1:26 PM
> To: 'XML Dev'
> Subject: RE: xsl editor needed
> 
> 
> > I am trying to find a nice GUI XSL editor to greate XSL file.
> > I tried XML
> > Styler, i find it too difficult to use. Are the any
> > alternative I can pick
> > from?? Thanks
> 
> Exactly what were you looking for?  I have written several 
> IDEs but I find
> it difficult to come up with an easy to use WYSIWYG XSL 
> editor but here are
> some ideas from my stack of cool things:
> 
> 1. Template creation wizard
> 2. Match pattern wizard
> 3. XSL document tree with drag-n-drop everywhere
> 4. XSL element property inspector
> 5. Before and after views in the template wizard/editors
> 6. Template/pattern repository for reuse
> 7. Late-binding of literal result to allow multiple results 
> (HTML, XHTML,
> XML, PDF, etc.)
> 8. Drag-and-drop XSL process configuration for multi-step translation.
> 9. Debugger.
> 
> Anything else?  How would you rank the ideas in terms of importance?
> 
> > As a note, for those people who are involved in XSL
> > development, I really
> > don't know how they write XSL document... notepad? anyway,
> > they are hero to
> > me :)
> 
> More like vi or emacs me thinks.  Frankly, those 
> 'finger-happy' editors
> gives me the creeps.  No offense meant to finger-happy folks.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Don Park
> Docuverse
> 
> 
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