- From: David M. Chandler <5chandlers@home.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:40:48 -0800
- To: <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
A Brief Report on WebDAV at XML '99 Greg Stein's presentation on WebDAV drew a fair amount of interest, but there was little mention of WebDAV otherwise. I was pleased to find one XML editor with WebDAV support (below) and attempted to bring WebDAV to the attention of other vendors. My particular interest is using a WebDAV repository to enable collaboration on hierarchical XML documents, and I was pleased to find a product which does exactly that. Excosoft Documentor is a combination XML/SGML/HTML browser/editor with WebDAV support. The most interesting aspects of the product are 1) It lets you edit in place while browsing. If a WebDAV server is available, you can lock, modify, unlock, and save files easily. 2) When you click on a hyperlink, the browser/editor displays the target file in-line with the file you're already browsing. Thus, a single "document" may actually be composed of many files, each of which may locked, modified, unlocked, and saved to the WebDAV server in place. This lends itself easily to creating structured documents made up of hierarchical elements. You can browse a document thus constructed in its entirety, or by drilling down through the collapsible outline of hyperlinks. This enables applications where many people edit different sections of the same document at once without losing the visual context of the larger document. It's more easily seen than described, as the interface solves a difficult problem in a very clever way. You can download a 30-day evaluation at www.excosoft.com. Excosoft Documentor should also be added to the product list at webdav.org. David Chandler Web Applications Developer Technisource, Inc.
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