Michael Wechner
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 04:35:33 -0800
Sylvain Wallez wrote: > Michael Wechner wrote: > >> Dear Sylvain >> >> Is your extension for Dreamweaver Open Source? > > > Nope. We have some internal discussions about opensourcing it, but > nothing has been decided yet. That's bad, but hope remains. > > > Back in June 2001, there was a discussion on cocoon-users where I gave > more details about how it works. See > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-users&m=99242156420770&w=2 I will check it out > > > We can also discuss this off-list. ok > > >> The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is looking for a CMS, and >> the race will be decided between Wyona CMS (based on Cocoon2) and >> Kontentor (based on Zope). >> >> One of the main criteria is that "XSLT" can be edited with >> Dreamweaver by >> Designers. We thought of a similar solution like you probably already >> have, >> but just didn't have the time to implement yet. > > > Does Zope provide such a feature ? Yes, I think it does: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/FrontPage http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZPT/TutorialPart1 >> Your extension sounds like very good news to me. > > > :-) > >> All the best >> >> Michael >> >> >> Sylvain Wallez wrote: >> >>> memo wrote: >>> > <snip/> > >>>> >>>> >>>> On the other hand, I agree that the Xopus-kinda-stuff is immensely >>>> more >>>> sexy, and the Wyona CMS will definitely have at least one way to do >>>> some >>>> fancy inline editing. Even a way to do style editing in the same >>>> wysiwyg, >>>> inline way is planned for the future, as the general belief is that >>>> you >>>> cannot really rely on designers to be able to write proper XSL >>>> stylesheets. >>>> Just this morning, we have also been discussing about something like a >>>> Velocity2XsltTransformer. Then, at least, designers would have the >>>> possibility to use commercial tools like Dreamweaver to do their >>>> stuff. Any >>>> comments on that? >>>> >>> Yep. Just as graphic designers can't write JSP, they can't write XSL >>> and you can't forbid them to use the commercial productivity tools >>> they like. >>> >>> In my company, we have extended Dreamweaver so that designers can >>> place in their web pages some non-html attributes and elements that >>> allows the "augmented page" to be compiled in an XSL stylesheet. >>> These annotations are tied to a particular DTD of the input >>> document, and we have various annotation sets for various DTDs (this >>> is a concept similar to XSP taglibs). >>> >>> This allows designers to use a wysiwyg graphical editor, and "write" >>> XSL stylesheets without having to know the XSL language. >>> >>> <snip/> >>> >>> Sylvain >>> > Sylvain > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]