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Subject: Re: using HTML editors with XSL From: "dhiraj guglani" <dhiraj.guglani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:33:34 +0530 |
hello, there is a tool named as Xsplit by percussion which might help you (it is free) at http://www.percussion.com/xsplit ----- Original Message ----- From: Aleksandrs Jakovlevs <Aleksandrs_Jakovlevs@xxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 1:43 PM Subject: using HTML editors with XSL > > > I am a novice in XSL, so my questions is rather about the methodology. > > We want to design a system that prepares data in XML and expose it to the > end-user by means of internet browser. It seems that optimal solution is to > use XSL for this purpose. We expect to have a lot of views. BUT... there > are a lot of professional HTML editors that allow HTML design and there is > a lot of experienced HTML designers. These designers are not programmers. > They are capable to design a perfect forms, colors, gifs etc. The business > content should be provided by mapping XML on this stuff (using XSL). It can > be done by separate person (a programmer). He needs to embed XSL to > existing HTML. Later HTML designer should be able to change page design > using his tools and programmer - to update XSL (in a convenient way). They > both are working on the same HTML page. In other words we would like to > have XSL document consisting of two parts: HTML template and some XSL tags > specifying where to put data from XML source. And we want to be able to > change these two parts independently. > I haven't seen a tool that allow to support such style of work. After > reading some materials introducing XSL technology I have discovered that > XSL is not exactly oriented on the proposed approach. The problem is that > XSL stylesheet that transforms XML into HTML can not be editable by an HTML > editor since XSL (in general) doesn't keep structure of the HTML template > unchanged. > There could be several solutions: > 1. Use some subset of XSL allowing to keep structure of the HTML template > unchanged, e.g. use <xsl:for-each select="..."> instead of <xsl:template > match="...">. This can make it possible to edit XSL stylesheet by some HTML > editor which is able just to skip unknown tags (in our case tags started > with "xsl:"). (BTW, do you think it's possible?) > 2. Wait for special HTML/XSL editors that will be able to restore HTML > structure from the XSL and edit HTML template in WYSIWYG mode. (When such > an editor could appear?) > 3. Find out some other technology (not XSL) that is more applicable for the > described scenario. (Does anyone know such a technology?) > > Thanks, > Alex > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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