Dear Sylvain Is your extension for Dreamweaver Open Source?
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. Your extension sounds like very good news to me. All the best Michael Sylvain Wallez wrote: > memo wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jeremy Quinn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 15:30 >>> >> >> -- snip >> >>> At 2:48 pm +0100 7/3/02, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >>> >>>> The Wyona guys also have form-based editing... which no matter what, I >>>> can't get to like. The fact that I can't make something 'strong' in >>>> the >>>> middle of a form makes me puke, no matter what. >>>> >>> This is the kind of thing I am _aiming_ for with <slash-edit/> >>> >> >> Well, I need to defend Martin's HTML form editor a little, as he >> won't do >> it. I know that it's not really impressive, but at least you *can* >> emphasize >> parts or insert links or even tables (!) anywhere you want, because the >> editor supports XHTML in all input fields. The only thing missing ATM >> is a >> check for the well-formedness of the XHTML, if you make a mistake you >> can >> bring the whole application down (arrgh!), but I am working on that >> right >> now, and hope to finish it next week, if I get the chance to work >> with Wyona >> some more (if I don't, somebody else will finish it surely). >> >> Also, I believe that having a HTML-forms editor is always a good >> fallback, >> as for most other solutions, you will have to do some browser and >> platform >> specific hacks, which might need upgrading each time a new browser >> version >> comes out. >> >> 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
