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Hi,
Both Xopus (available, not open source) and BitFlux Editor (alpha
release available, open source) do this, sort of.
The difference is that they don't generate html forms, but editable
html, resulting in "What You See Is What You Get" (when the xml data is
published online) editing. This is often preferable to forms.
Go to http://xopus.com/ or http://bitfluxeditor.org/ to find out more.
greetings, Sjoerd
amol wrote:
>
> Am pretty new to xml and this is my first post.
>
> Scenario: 1. Application has some data stored in xml format.
>
> 2. Application wants the user to be able to edit this data over the
> web.
>
> 3. This warrants the need for a generic application which can convert
> xml documents to html forms and html forms back to xml documents.
>
> 4. To generat a form, it would need to know the details of the
> individual elements, e.x., the data type, possible values if any,
> etc. Now, this is possible only if this form generator is able to
> read the "schema" of that xml document.
>
> 5. Thus, using the schema document, this application would generate a
> corresponding html form. The user will enter information in this
> form, and on submit, this application will again convert the form
> data into the required xml document.
>
> This scenario looks pretty generic. Lot of people may have had to do
> this. Isnt there any open source solution to this problem anywhere? I
> tried google for a solution but couldnt find a comprehensive one. One
> approach could be to have xsl to convert any schema document to html
> form. Has anyone done it before?
>
> Thanks in advance. Amol
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Sjoerd Visscher
http://w3future.com/weblog/
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