Re: Use Case

Hi Michael,

I'm don't know if this is really on topic for this list — it seems to be mostly about something that needs to be implemented using browser tech but that you haven't found. However see below.

On Dec 22, 2010, at 03:37 , Michael Sokolov wrote:
> We would like to be able to provide our users lightweight WYSIWYG in-browser editing tools that operate on XML, using vocabularies that we control. We have a few choices currently, none of which is ideal:
> 
>   A) render using XSLT in the browser; this is painful due to limited browser support for XSLT
>   B) render in the browser using CSS only: this provides only limited presentation capabilities
>   C) render using a server round-trip; this cripples the immediacy of the user experience
>   D) Use a heavyweight tool (like Xopus) that essentially embeds an entirely separate client-side application in the browser.  This might be the best option, but we've been reluctant to invest the not-insignificant license fees and integration effort here.
>   E) Something else we haven't found yet - suggestions welcome!

Have you looked at AXEL / XTiger:

  http://media.epfl.ch/Templates/

It uses a very simple language to create HTML-based editors for arbitrary XML languages. It's quite interesting.

-- 
Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/

Received on Wednesday, 22 December 2010 19:15:26 UTC