Re: using HTML editors with XSL

hello,
there is a tool named as Xsplit by percussion which might help you (it is
free)
at
http://www.percussion.com/xsplit



----- Original Message -----
From: Aleksandrs Jakovlevs <Aleksandrs_Jakovlevs@xxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 1:43 PM
Subject: using HTML editors with XSL


>
>
> I am a novice in XSL, so my questions is rather about the methodology.
>
> We want to design a system that prepares data in XML and expose it to the
> end-user by means of internet browser. It seems that optimal solution is
to
> use  XSL for this purpose. We expect to have a lot of views. BUT... there
> are a lot of professional HTML editors that allow HTML design and there is
> a lot of experienced HTML designers. These designers are not programmers.
> They are capable to design a perfect forms, colors, gifs etc. The business
> content should be provided by mapping XML on this stuff (using XSL). It
can
> be done by separate person (a programmer). He needs to embed XSL to
> existing HTML. Later HTML designer should be able to change page design
> using his tools and programmer - to update XSL (in a convenient way). They
> both are working on the same HTML page. In other words we would like to
> have XSL document consisting of two parts: HTML template and some XSL tags
> specifying where to put data from XML source. And we want to be able to
> change these two parts independently.
> I haven't seen a tool that allow to support such style of work. After
> reading some materials introducing XSL technology I have discovered that
> XSL is not exactly oriented on the proposed approach. The problem is that
> XSL stylesheet that transforms XML into HTML can not be editable by an
HTML
> editor since XSL (in general) doesn't keep structure of the HTML template
> unchanged.
> There could be several solutions:
> 1. Use some subset of XSL allowing to keep structure of the HTML template
> unchanged, e.g. use <xsl:for-each select="..."> instead of <xsl:template
> match="...">. This can make it possible to edit XSL stylesheet by some
HTML
> editor which is able just to skip unknown tags (in our case tags started
> with "xsl:"). (BTW, do you think it's possible?)
> 2. Wait for special HTML/XSL editors that will be able to restore HTML
> structure from the XSL and edit HTML template in WYSIWYG mode. (When such
> an editor could appear?)
> 3. Find out some other technology (not XSL) that is more applicable for
the
> described scenario. (Does anyone know such a technology?)
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
>
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