xml-dev - Re: XML Schema + {e-catalog}* --> GUI (automatically!)

[Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com>]

James,

Looks like we need a new problem ...

Alternatively I'm thinking at writing a smallish book on how to write
good XSLT - I have a friend who's expanding from legal publishing into
internet-related stuff.

Many thanks for the chat on Friday - a thought-inspiring session.

Francis.

"Roger L. Costello" wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Over the past few months I have been spending my weekends creating a
> technology to automatically generate GUIs from XML schemas and
> e-catalogues.  With this technology it is possible to take the manual,
> human effort out of building and maintaining Electronic Commerce Web
> sites.  This technology  enables the automatic generation of
> self-maintaining Web sites, for any domain.
> 
> Below is the announcement of this tool.  I welcome your thoughts and
> suggestions.  /Roger
> 
>                       *** ANNOUNCEMENT ***
> 
>                        Electronic Commerce
>                           ...
>                Achieving Aggregate Market Awareness
>                          at Internet Speed
>                         using XML technology
> 
> Announcing an Open Source tool which automatically generates Web pages
> based upon an XML schema and conforming XML instance documents
> (e-catalogs).
> 
> Namely,
> 
>    XML Schema + e-catalogs ---> AGUI tool --> Web page
> 
> AGUI = Automatic Graphical User Interface
> 
> The purpose of this tool is to provide automatic, continually up-to-date
> (self-maintaining), aggregate market awareness, across all domains.
> 
> Background
> 
> Many Web sites today gather data from other Web sites and present an
> aggregate view of the data. Of course the Internet is changing very
> fast. Consequently, it is very difficult (and expensive) to maintain an
> up-to-date aggregate view.  The purpose of the technology being
> presented here is to provide a tool which automatically generates an
> aggregate view of the data and is constantly up-to-date.  Further, this
> tool works for any domain. Thus, this tool provides the capability to
> have an automatically generated, self-maintaining search capability,
> regardless of the domain.
> 
> Demo and further description, including GUI generation algorithms,
> located at:
> 
>              <http://www.xfront.org>
> 
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