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  • dado0583@hotmail.com
    #1

    XSLT Editor - requirements

    Hi,
    I'm currently writing an XSLT Editor tool as part of a university
    project. I would like to know what those of you that use XSLT look for
    in an XSLT editor.

    Currently, the main features will be:
    - Load a DTD or schema, which is shown in a tree format, so that
    users can drag and drop desired XPaths into the .xsl text window.
    - Drag and drop xslt keywords into the text editor window. So for
    value-of, the following would be inserted. <xsl:value-of select=""/>.
    Then the user can drag and drop the XPath into that tag.
    Then theres all the old favourites: colour coded tags automatic
    tag completion (depending on my programming skills), project files to
    organise work and an output viewer.

    Is there anything specifically related to XSLT, that anyone has found
    would be useful in an XSLT editor.

    Cheers,
    David

    PS. this project will be freely availible (with source code) once I've
    'finished' it.

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    • Peter Flynn
      #2
      Re: XSLT Editor - requirements

      dado0583@hotmai l.com wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > Hi,
      > I'm currently writing an XSLT Editor tool as part of a university
      > project. I would like to know what those of you that use XSLT look for
      > in an XSLT editor.
      >
      > Currently, the main features will be:
      > - Load a DTD or schema, which is shown in a tree format, so that
      > users can drag and drop desired XPaths into the .xsl text window.
      > - Drag and drop xslt keywords into the text editor window. So for
      > value-of, the following would be inserted. <xsl:value-of select=""/>.
      > Then the user can drag and drop the XPath into that tag.
      > Then theres all the old favourites: colour coded tags automatic
      > tag completion (depending on my programming skills), project files to
      > organise work and an output viewer.[/color]

      Emacs xsl-ide mode already has about 90% of this, without the drag-and-drop.
      For speed, you might consider taking that as your basis, and adding the
      D'n'D features to it.

      Much more interesting would be a purely graphical constructor, which would
      allow the user to define areas in a typographic window and specify the
      source and manipulation of the information which was to go into them. Have
      a look at the paper on VXT from the 2001 ACM DocEng Symposium
      http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/publikationen/diplomarbeiten/Sacha.Berger/literatur/COMPARING-XML-QLs/Pietriga%20-%20VXT:A%20Visual%20Approach%20to%20XML%20Transformations.pdf

      [color=blue]
      > Is there anything specifically related to XSLT, that anyone has found
      > would be useful in an XSLT editor.[/color]

      XSLT2 answered most of my requirements. The only others are personal gripes
      about a few small things I think should have been done differently.
      [color=blue]
      > PS. this project will be freely availible (with source code) once I've
      > 'finished' it.[/color]

      Excellent. Can I enter a plea that it should be cross-platform?

      ///Peter
      --
      "The cat in the box is both a wave and a particle"
      -- Terry Pratchett, introducing quantum physics in _The Authentic Cat_

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        • dado0583@hotmail.com
          #3
          Re: XSLT Editor - requirements

          Hey, yeah the finished product will be written in Java so it will be
          cross-platform.Cheers for the input.
          Dave

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