Re: [Wyonacms-dev] Forrest and WYSIWYG editing

This looks promising, especially since version 3.0 of HTMLarea not only 
supports IE on Win, but also Mozilla (1.3) on all platforms. The nice 
thing seems to be that you can turn every <textarea> field of a form 
easily into an editable area. Maybe it could be used to build an 
advanced form-based editor. Of course the problem will be how to 
transform the (X)HTML to the specific XML you need for a document. But 
you won't have this issue if you have a "generic" doctype where your 
content is XHTML.
Anyway, the demo is worth a look:
http://htmlarea.cocoondev.org/bde/sandbox.html

-Felix

Christian Egli wrote:
> There is a thread right now over at forrset-dev. Gianugo Rabellino
> submitted a patch to integrate Htmlarea 3.0 (a html inline editor)
> into Forrest. It looks quite interesting. Check out
> http://htmlarea.cocoondev.org/index.html to see his motivation and a
> demo.
> 
> To quote from above URL:
> 
> What is this?
> 
> This is just a plain Forrest distro with a few add-ons, hacks and
> modifications:
> 
> First of all the editor is based on
> 
> * HTMLarea, from http://www.interactivetools.com. This is version 3.0,
>   still alpha but quite usable from my experience until now;
> 
> * XML content is pulled from Forrest and trasformed to XHTML with a
>   few addition (nominally some <div> and class attributes here and
>   there so that the stylesheet renders a more "structure oriented"
>   HTML that might be processed on the way back to the Forrest
>   repository; 
> 
> * The edited content is submitted as a plain HTML form, and processed
>   by:
> 
>         * JTidy, via a modified version of the HTMLGenerator that is
>           able to pull content from a request parameter (available in
>           Cocoon HEAD); 
> 
>         * A stylesheet that converts this HTML back to XML, with
>           little or no loss;
> 
>         * The SourceWriterTransformer that saves the whole thing back
>           to the Forrest repo. 
> 

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