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RE: [xsl] XSLT WYSIWYG WEB Editor

2006-12-15 11:36:36
From: Senthilkumaravelan Krishnanatham [mailto:senthil(_at_)apple(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 15 December, 2006 13:13
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT WYSIWYG WEB Editor

I am looking for something pre-cooked which could be re-heated 
and ready to serve kind. As first step we would be constructing 
XSLT for them (Content editors), they will manage the content 
and Language part of it.

If you come across one ,please suggest. I am still finding it 
difficult such  a product in the Google world :)

I don't fully disagree with what Michael Kay and other have written
about a non-developer XSLT WYSIWYG Web editor, it is a difficult
problem on multiple levels.  XSLT works on an XML document.  So
before your "non-developer" users can visually create an XSLT, they
need to understand the underlying XML grammar.  This would imply
that you also need some XML WYSIWYG editor to work in conjunction
with a mechanism to create the XSL transform.

I don't think this is impossible to do, there are existing tools
out there that could probably be pieced together to provide some
functionality.  When I look at Microsoft Office, 2003 and above,
it provides some "non-developer" ability to take information in
the document and map that to/from an XML grammar that either 
exists or is automatically created by the structure of the data 
in the Office application.

Further, Microsoft's InfoPath application allows non-developers
to interact or create XML grammars through a forms based scenario
where you can provide XSL transforms to view the underlying XML
grammar in different ways.  Since InfoPath can be extended through
a variety of programmatic means, you could initially provide some
default XSLT's and customize the InfoPath environment to provide
some means for the user to create their own views.

So I think there are possibilities open to explore, but at this
time I don't see any single off the shelf application for an
XSLT WYSIWYG Web editor.


Andy.

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