Re: [Wyonacms-users] [Fwd: Xopus Open Source Release]

yeah, it's great.

I am trying to integrate it today. Actually it is already,
but the OS version is slightly different from the demo version
we received some weeks ago. So, I'll start hacking now.

Michael



Mehmet Birgi wrote:

> I have just received the announcement below from Xopus and thought that 
> I would forward it, as a lot of people have been asking for this lately
> 
> Happy coding,
> 
> Memo
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> 
> Q42's long expected Xopus open source version is released!
> 
> Online demo: http://xopus.org/demo
> Download:    http://xopus.org/downloads/Xopus200207090117OS.zip
> 
> ABOUT XOPUS
> 
>   Xopus is a fully browser based WYSIWYG validating XML editor.
> 
>   Xopus is the ultimate tool to enable common users to edit XML
>   in a Microsoft Word like environment. Due to its standards
>   compliant architecture, deployment is a breeze.
> 
>   No browserplugins or ActiveX installs are needed (1). Most
>   XML Schema's and XSL Stylesheets can be used as-is.
> 
>   Xopus is platform independant, it runs in Microsoft Internet
>   Explorer 5.5+, Netscape 7+ and Mozilla 1.0+.
> 
>   Besides its ease of use is Xopus also fully configurable and
>   extendable.
> 
>   A database driver provides an abstraction layer between your
>   database/cms/filesystem and Xopus which makes Xopus
>   integration a matter of minutes instead of weeks. Various
>   ready made database drivers are available, new drivers are
>   developed every week.
> 
>   Some data types require a custom editing interface. Xopus
>   has an editor plugin interface which enables you to write
>   your own interface for editing a node while Xopus keeps
>   your document valid.
> 
>   Contact the Xopus team at: [email protected]
> 
>   1) Xopus does require MSXML 4 installed when using Microsoft
>      Internet Explorer to provide standards compliant XML
>      parsing and XSL transforming.
> 
>      See for additional information:
>      http://www.microsoft.com/xml
> 
> LICENSE
> 
>   There are two versions of Xopus: the open source version and
>   a commercial version.
> 
>   The open source version is distributed with the license:
>   http://xopus.org/index.jsp?menu=licensing
>   This version is funded by the funding partners of the Xopus
>   open source project. With new funding, a new open source
>   version is released.
> 
>   The commercial version has more features and less bugs, but
>   there is a user based licensing fee.
> 
> COMMERCIAL XOPUS
> 
>   The commercial version of Xopus is different from the open
>   source version:
> 
>    - Countless bugfixes
>    - Faster, up to 50 times with some XML/XSL files
>    - Schema Extensions, fully control node creation
>    - Documentation in schema, supply the user with friendly
>      node names and context help in various languages
>    - Table editor, fully validated and still user friendly
>    - List actions
>    - Unlimited Undo/Redo
>    - Our developer team releases new features daily
> 
>   The open source version is upgradeable to the commercial
>   version.
> 
>   Contact Q42 for more information: [email protected]
> 
> OPEN SOURCE XOPUS
> 
>   Q42 welcomes contributions to Xopus.
>   Unfortunately the Xopus core is not yet stable enough for
>   shared development. Other parts (databasedrivers,
>   translations, examples, special-datatype-editors) are stable
>   enough and can be developed at will. Please contact us if
>   you want to contribute.
> 
>   Contact the Xopus team at: [email protected]
> 
> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
> 
>   We thank those people that have helped (and are still
>   helping) to make Xopus what it should be: a great XML
>   editor for everyone.
> 
>   Kars Veling (Q42) and Lon Boonen (Q42) for the original
>   idea and first proof-of-concept version.
> 
>   Laurens van den Oever (Q42) for his thorough work that
>   made the new Xopus so much better than the old one.
> 
>   Sjoerd Visscher (Q42) for the Mozilla contentEditable
>   code and for thousands of answers to thousands of questions.
> 
>   Michael Wechner (Wyona) for being a great guy and
>   convincing us to go open source. (http://www.wyona.ch)
> 
>   Translations:
> 
>   Danish:    Bo Overby (OpenToBusiness) (http://www.opentobusiness.com)
>   Italian:   Giuseppe Bonelli
>   Greek:     Chris Gianniotis (eWorx) (http://www.eworx.gr)
>   French:    Florent Guillaume (Nuxeo) (http://www.nuxeo.com)
>   Polish:    Bartek Pawluk (zjednoczenie) (http://www.zjednoczenie.com)
>   Japanese:  Tony Laszlo (http://www.issho.org/laszlo.html)
>   Spanish:   Rick de Graaff
>   Russian:   Alex Ushakov (http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/~ushakov)
>   Chinese:   Andrea Leung (http://t-salon.blogspot.com)
>   Ukrainian: Igor Svetlickov (design.ru) (http://www.design.ru)
> 
> Have fun with Xopus!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Laurens van den Oever
> 
> 
> 
> 
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