RE: Generating User Interfaces from Schema

As mentioned in another thread, there is a lot of processing to get from a
schema document (a chunk of XML) to a schema (a set of components with
properties). You probably want to start from the schema, not from the schema
document.

There seems to be a need for a tool here that generates an XML
representation of the schema, perhaps as a schema document in some kind of
"normal form" with appinfo annotations to represent the computed properties.
Having written a schema processor in Java, I find it hard to imagine writing
one in XSLT, though I'm sure it can be done in theory.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angel Gavin [mailto:agavin@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: 19 July 2005 10:09
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Generating User Interfaces from Schema
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have read a lot about the suitability of XSLT to generate 
> Graphical User
> Interfaces (GUI) from XML Schema. I suppose that many people has been
> working on this before, but I just want to get some feedback 
> from the list.
> Are there any related project/initiatives/products/... to 
> generate GUIs in
> an automated way? I only know one commercial product 
> (JAXFront) and, as far
> as I know, it is not based on XSLT.
> 
> At the time being I can foresee some restrictions (not 
> necessarily linked to
> the use of XSLT, but to automation itself) I may need to 
> impose to Schemas.
> Any hints on this will be much appreciated too.
> 
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help,
> Angel
> 
> 
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