Re: [xml-dev] Challenge

[Oleg Dulin <dulino@olegdulin.com>]

A lot of it can be done with Cocoon and JavaScript using components I 
listed at http://www.cocoonrecipes.org/ . Of course, I haven't had much 
time to update that site.

I have to admit, though, that I totally agree with you. I am working on 
a project along the lines of what you described here and I finding it 
increasingly difficult to implement complex XML manipulation using HTML 
as the UI.

Oleg

Didier PH Martin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> As usual, in this list there is a lot of talk and very little walk. Here 
> is a challenge I am proposing to the member of this list and 
> particularly to the people who think great application can be done with 
> a browser technology and W3C frameworks.
> 
>  
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> The goal is to get an XML document to be edited on the client, all 
> validation performed on the client and the filled XML document returned 
> to the server. Let’s start with a modest document as below. What is to 
> be filled are the data content for each element. Simple no?
> 
> So to recap:
> 
> a)       The XML document is associated with a stylesheet for rendition. 
>  All the element’s data content are empty. The XML document is rendered 
> in the browser using an XSLT stylesheet (you design and implement the 
> stylesheet – rendition is opened)
> 
> b)       The user enters the data and the XML data content is filled. 
> The element Version has to be validated. Only 1.0 is allowed. Validation 
> obviously is performed on the client side.
> 
> c)       The XML document is returned to the server with all its data  
> content filled
> 
>  
> 
> Here is the XML document:
> 
> <demo>
> 
>   <version></version>
> 
>   <author>
> 
>       <name></name>
> 
>       <email></email>
> 
>   </author>
> 
>   <description></description>
> 
> </demo>
> 
>  
> 
> See, the XML document to be filled is simple. By the way, at first let’s 
> not restrict that to a single browser. IE, Opera, Mozilla or others are 
> fine. As long as the apps can do what is mentioned in this message and 
> no “fat server” technology is used. The whole “fill the blanks” 
> operation should occurs without constant connection with a server. Now 
> let’s see how many can walk their talk
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Didier PH Martin
> 
> http://didier-martin.com <http://didier-martin.com/>
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