Re: WYSIWYG XSL Editors

Subject: Re: WYSIWYG XSL Editors
From: "Ed Staub" <estaub@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:59:53 -0400
There are a couple of interesting tools that I'm surprised no one has
mentioned on this thread.

One is Excelon Stylus, which is an XSL editor.  I wouldn't call it exactly
WYSIWYG, but it's certainly more than XML Spy.  It does have some issues,
though.  It uses an internal XSLT engine, and it isn't quite up to spec in
all respects.  But it has great a great traceback feature - you can click on
a piece of output HTML and it will show you the template that generated it.
It also has slightly better auto-complete than XML Spy.  $200 at
www.excelon.com, with a 30-day trial download.

The other is Percussion XSplit, which is a tool for reverse-engineering DTD
and stylesheet from output HTML.  You create a page which looks like what
you want, then you go in and mark the bits which should come from the input
XML.  XSplit suggests a DTD and stylesheet.  It does some other things to;
in particular, it's a nice Tidy tool.  Free, at www.percussion.com.

I couldn't get the IBM tools to work, either.

For myself, I've purchased XML Spy, because of its other capabilities in
addition to being a XSLT workbench.

-Ed Staub



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