Re: Suggestions for a tool or method to create an editable XML-basedform.

It sounds like 'Authentic' from Altova may be a solution.
It has a free browser compoinent for updaing XML databases.

http://www.altova.com/products/authentic/xml_db_form_editor.html

I haven;t used this myself yet.


Mike



2009/3/10 Howard, Chris <[email protected]>

> It doesn't have to run in a browser, but the user's PCs are not
> under my control so it is simpler if I don't have to wrestle
> with client-side installations.
>
> A browser plugin may be a necessary evil.
>
> I'm checking out XForms.  It appears interesting so far.
>
> Chris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Berjon [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:26 AM
> To: Howard, Chris
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Suggestions for a tool or method to create an editable
> XML-basedform.
>
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 23:18 , Howard, Chris wrote:
> > But, I have this nagging feeling that there must be some simpler
> > tool for doing this, particularly the tricky bits of saving
> > state between calls to CGI.pm.
>
> Sideways question: does it have to run in a browser, and any browser
> at that? What you describe sounds a lot like XForms. There's a Firefox
> extension for it (and a bunch of plugins or server transcoders).
>
> >  Maybe I should be writing this
> > in Java or something.
>
> That's never the solution.
>
>
>
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