Subject: Re: XML/XSL on the client for dynamic UI From: oberthier@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:23:06 +0100 (CET) |
John is right, I'm having in mind what he calls "customizable data-entry forms and such, which would vary with the content being collected". I originally had a look at XUL, however, and as far as I understood, the purpose is only to have a language describing the UI (its menus and dialogs typically) and not to implement it directly. The two solutions I went through and that I was trying to briefly describe in my original thread (HTML/DSO/XML and XML/XSL/HTML) are trying to do this. Maybe to rephrase the idea, the flow of the application would be something like this: 1. On the server, the XML data file is prepared from the content of several RDBMS table. 2. The user receives in its browser this XML document and a way to render it. 3. The user then enters the data he wants into various fields (each of them having its own validation and event handling, for instance implemented in JavaScript if we keep the browser idea). All those changes are automatically updating the XML document locally. 4. When finished, the user is submitting the updated XML data back to the server which will update the database tables accordingly. My current interest is mainly on steps 2. and 3., 1. and 4. starting to be easy to address on an application server, or at least people are obviously working on it at the moment (see the recent XML server debate on this list). Olivier. >From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx> >Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:29:35 -0400 >Cc: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >At 06:45 AM 10/26/1999 -0700, Dale Asberry wrote: >>I've not really investigated beyond just a quick glance, but >>isn't XUL (eXtensible User-interface Language) supposed to >>support these ideas? I'm not sure if this is true, but I >>remember reading that the Mozilla group is strongly >>considering using XUL to define the browser interface. Anyone >>else see anything along these lines? > >I thought of XUL at first, too. (Yeah, I'm pretty sure >Mozilla's UI is indeed completely specified and customizable >with XUL.) But then I thought about it some more and I believe >what the original poster was really talking about had to do >with customizable data-entry forms and such, which would vary >with the content being collected -- not so much the chrome of >buttons, scrollbars, and the like. Dunno if XUL would be of any >help at all if that's what he was talking about. (Except that >you could dynamically add things like toolbar buttons, maybe.) > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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