xml-dev - innovation Partners and CEI announce IRIS XML EDITOR beta 1

[Alain DESEINE <alain@cabinfo.com>]

innovation Partners and CEI announce IRIS XML EDITOR beta 1

The first release (beta 1) of IRIS XML EDITOR is now available for
download. This first beta allow 
the user to create XML projects based on a DTD generated (saved) with
our IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR 
software. Futures version will permit to open DTDs that was not saved
with IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR. 
So, if you have provide additionnal informations (like Hint,
Description, Toolbar, and icon) in IRIS 
XML DTD GENERATOR, you'll get in IRIS XML EDITOR dynamics toolbar that
contains buttons which can 
insert easily elements you describe in your DTD. You'll get dynamic
element wizzards too, if you 
provide some attributes for elements. Obviously, IRIS XML EDITOR is a
full XML oriented editor 
with many improved editing functionnalities like :

- Toggle between Upper and lower case with shift + F3
- Glossaries
- Full text search and replace
- Intelligent inserting of element
- multi pages editing windows to edit large collections of files
- etc.

You can download IRIS XML EDITOR from the following URL.

http://www.cabinfo.com/download.htm

We currently working on improving support of other DTDs (those not saved
with IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR, 
please see the readme.txt file in the distribution for more informations
on how to use others 
DTDs). We are also working on an internal XSL engine for visualisation
purpose. All this work will 
appear in the next beta version (beta 2 or beta 3).


Well known in FRANCE for his HTML EDITOR ODYSSEE ( see
http://www.mondial-telecom.com/odyssee ), 
Innovation Partners has start to think about XML many months ago. This
thought tell us to develop 
3 XML software. The first one, IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR, is a tool for
building XML DTDs. The second 
is IRIS XML EDITOR for editing XML files. And the third one is a XSL
stylesheet EDITOR for 
presenting and processing XML files. These 3 softwares can naturally
work together, building a complete 
sofware suite for XML editing. For limitations, supported
functionnalities, and bugs of beta 
versions, please see the readme file of the downloaded software. Now
lets have a look to the 
DTD functionnalities. 

IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR

- Editing existing DTDs
- Creating DTDs
- Logical and Text view mode for editing DTDs
- Wizzard for creating ELEMENTS both in text an logical view
- Wizzard for creating ATTRIBUTES both in text an logical view
- Wizzard for creating ENTITIES both in text an logical view
- Wizzard for creating COMMENTS both in text an logical view
- Support of additionnals informations for IRIS XML EDITOR (saved as
comment in the DTD)
- Generation of XML DATA schemas
- Find an replace both in logical and text view
- Wizzard for creating xml standard attributes (like xml:lang for
example)
- support of XLL linking attributes
- Glossaries
- Printing a DTD
- multi language software (currently French and English only - You can
change the language in the file menu)
- Automatic save capabilities
- backup on save capabilities
- MDI environment

NOTE : All of these functionnalities are not implemented in the beta 1
release. This list describe 
what the software can be for the version 1.00 release. Some of these
functionnalities will perharps 
disappear for the final release.


IRIS XML EDITOR

- Creating XML files according to a DTD generated by IRIS XML DTD
GENERATOR, or generated by something else.
- Project notion for managing XML file collections (like in the ODYSSEE
HTML EDITOR).
- glossaries
- Dynamic toolbars with generated icons that can insert ELEMENTS,
ATTRIBUTES, or ENTITIES you define in your DTD
- Dynamic Wizzard generated automaticly for ELEMENTS with attributes,
that ask user for informations.
- Text view for editing XML files
- Hierachical view for for editing the XML file (the tree object flow
view)
- Visualisation view for seeing the rendering of the XML file :
	- If an XSL file is specified in your XML document these one is use to
generate the 
	visualisation view.
	- if none is provide, a minimal built in style sheet is use to render
your document.
- Automatic save capabilities
- backup on save capabilities
- XML document printing
- XML Visualisation view printing
- FTP publication of XML files
- Specific Wizzard adding capabilities through an Standardize DLL API
(like in ODYSSEE HTML EDITOR)	
- Friend application capabilities
- multi language software (currently French and English only - You can
change the language in the file menu)
- Find an replace both in tree and text view
- Insertion of XML Standard Attributes (like xml:lang)

NOTE : All of these functionnalities are not implemented in the beta 1
release. This list describe 
what the software can be for the version 1.00 release. Some of these
functionnalities will perharps 
disappear for the final release.


IRIS XSL STYLER

- Creating XSL stylesheet 
- full support of XSL proposal and future ones.
- glossaries
- Text view for editing XSL files
- Hierachical view for for editing the XSL rules 
- Import a DTD to re-use its elements, attributes, etc. in the style
sheet
- Visualisation view for seeing the rendering produce with the XSL file
:
	- You can provide your own XML file to see the rendering.
	- if none is provide, a minimal built in XML file based on the
target-elements is used.
- Automatic save capabilities
- backup on save capabilities
- XSL document printing
- XSL Visualisation view printing
- Specific Wizzard adding capabilities through an Standardize DLL API
(like in ODYSSEE HTML EDITOR)	
- Friend application capabilities
- multi language software (currently French and English only - You can
change the language in the file menu)
- Find an replace both in tree and text view

NOTE : All of these functionnalities are not implemented in the beta 1
release. This list describe 
what the software can be for the version 1.00 release. Some of these
functionnalities will perharps 
disappear for the final release.


Currently, only the IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR beta 1 and IRIS XML EDITOR
beta 1 are available.  
IRIS XSL STYLER beta 1 will be available in June. All theses software
are commercial, so 
they are copyright. The beta version of these software are freely usable
for evaluation purpose, 
bugs report, and functionnality discussions. Once the final release
(Version 1.00) launch up, you 
***MUST*** register the software if you want to use it. 

For Bugs reports, Functionnalities discussion, technical questions, XML
and XSL discussion, you 
can use the DTD GENERATOR mailling list, for details about the mailling
list, please see the readme 
file include in the beta 1 distribution. You can download the Beta 1
distribution of IRIS XML 
EDITOR at :

http://www.cabinfo.com/download.htm



Paris the May 4th 1998

Alain DESEINE, Technical contact.

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Innovation Partners

Commercial contact : M. Emmanuel CHAMBON     innovationpartners@hol.fr
Technical contact  : M. Alain DESEINE        alain@cabinfo.com

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