Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT WYSIWYG WEB Editor From: "Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:36:12 -0500 |
> From: Senthilkumaravelan Krishnanatham [mailto:senthil@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 15 December, 2006 13:13 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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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