Subject: RE: using HTML editors with XSL From: Manish Shah <MShah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:34:00 -0800 |
Hi Alex, I am going through the same situation as you are. Here is what I have done. I developed a perl script to sprinkle the html code with xsl. I am attaching my perl script here with. -----Original Message----- From: Aleksandrs Jakovlevs [mailto:Aleksandrs_Jakovlevs@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 12:13 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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