Re: [xml-dev] Announcement: XEntrant - Model Driven XML Tree Editor

[Stefan Tilkov <info@tilkov.com>]

As this doesn't run on my platform of choice, I can't try it out. One  
question though: What's "model-driven" about it?

Stefan
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Stefan Tilkov, http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/


On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:42 PM, TreeStages wrote:

> TreeStages would like to announce the first evaluation release of
> model driven XEntrant XML Editor 0.1, which is available for download
> from our website:
>
> http://www.treestages.com
>
> XEntrant is a Model Driven XML Tree Editor supporting browsing,  
> editing,
> iterpreting and validating of:
>
> - XML document instances (wellformed or predefined)
> - DTDs (document type definitions)
> - XML Schemas
> - XSL Transformations (Extensible Stylesheet Language)
>
> Benefits:
>
> Simple and easy work with nodes and subtrees only, instead of with
> tags and complex structures in a text form.
> There is no need to remember syntax or structure of DTD or schema
> definitions. At any point in time while editing you can not only see
> definitions and types of edited nodes but you can drag and drop
> individual items from the definitions and instances into any location
> within the instance document allowed by another useful feature -
> prevalidation.
> In the case of documents with XML schemas the type definition models
> in the model window are results of type inheritance hierarchy merging
> from all included / imported schemas.
> Improving and speeding up XML learning process.
>
> Features:
>
> The editing functions include various user friendly features
> pertaining to individual nodes and specific to the application window
> frames:
>
> - tree as well as text based Cut/Copy/Paste, Drag-Drop, Delete, Find/
> Replace
> - multilevel Undo and Redo functionality
> - prevalidation of every editing action (drag-drop/insert/delete) on
> the fly
> - clear namespace resolution, prevalidation and indication wherever
> possible
> - documents can be validated for wellformedness or for defined data
> types
> - proprietary partial validation against DTDs and XML Schemas
> - MSXML validation in case the user's computer contains MSXML library
> - MSXML transformation functionality
> - MSXML Xpath functionality
> - tree comparison
> - DTD content model optimization
> - customization with plugins
> - font and color preferences
> - image hot spots
> - spellcheck functionality and the possibility to create customized
> dictionaries
> - detailed help manual with descriptions of all features and
> functionalities
>
> A fully functional MS Windows free evaluation version of XEntrant with
> a 100-day trial period is now available for download.
>
> http://www.treestages.com
>
>
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