Subject: Re: [xsl] Cool: Saxon driving a GUI, interactive XSLT From: JBryant@xxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:13:48 -0600 |
It ain't crazy, and I am definitely interested. I'd love to see it and be involved. I'm an API technical writer, so I could help with the documentation. XSL has become one of my major tools, and I have converted my company's publication system entirely to PDF and HTML produced from XML through XSL. I would be especially interested if your system could be extended in the direction of an interactive GUI for developing stylesheets and previewing the results. (Yes, I know commercial products exist to do that, but I am cheap, and so is the company where I am consulting, so I rely excelusively on open-source tools.) Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services Gunther Schadow <gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 11/18/2004 01:38 PM Please respond to xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject [xsl] Cool: Saxon driving a GUI, interactive XSLT This is cool: Imagine you define a XUL style GUI using XML. You write a transform and run it with Saxon 8.1.1. This causes the GUI to appear on your screen. GUI events are turned into elements that are processed by normal XSLT templates. These templates can use an HTTP/POST extension element to interact with a web service, and the response XML documents may be transformed into new GUI elements or modify existing ones. When the application finishes, the output of the transform is -- for example -- a complete log of the user action. Or perhaps the document that the user has worked on. And this is not a dream! It is real. I did it. It's even pretty straight-forward. I did it with both Swing and SWT. At this point it's just a proof of concept, but it works. If there is interest, I'll make it a sourceforge project. I call it XSLTGUI. Is it crazy? I don't think so. It makes perfect sense. It's better than the various XUL environments, because it is much more flexible and yet lightweight. All you need is Saxon! Transform any XML document into an interactive viewer application. The possibilities are endless. Welcome to the post-browser age! regards, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
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