Hi, thanks for your replies. We'll look into Xydra and XMLSchema. Thansk for your help!
Patrick Smith On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 11:37 -0500, Aleksander Slominski wrote: > Patrick Smith wrote: > > >My teammate and I are currently working on a web based XML editor (that > >extracts XML files from rars/jars/wars and ears) to configure > >applications running on an application server while they're still > >deployed. > > > >One of the editor's views is a form based view. You can take a look at a > >simple mock-up of the UI we are building at: > >http://people.redhat.com/pasmith/third.html > > > >We are required to validate the XML against its associated schemas. > >Though we also need to get information from the schema for the UI. For > >example, if the schema specifies that only 3 specific elements can be > >added as children to an element, then the form will have a drop down > >menu with only those 3 options. > > > >My question is, are there any existing projects or APIs available that > >will help in loading a schema and extracting such information. > > > > > hi Patrick, > > you may want to take a look on Xydra (under BSD-like license) > > http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/xydra/ > > - it has a simple version of what you have in your mockup (no arrays > but nested complexTypes are supported) and uses this functionality to > generate XML instance document to send to service described in WSDL - we > have used a special XML instance tree building code - XML schema was > parsed to generate sample XML instance with placeholders to fill data-in > and then XHTML form was generated with each field name having XPath like > address where form filed value should go into XML instance. on top of it > we experimented with Protege and intelligent defaults/learning. all > source code is available and maybe you find some of those ideas useful > in your work and i think having AJAX-enabled XHTML form to create XML > instance document guided by XML Schemas would be very cool ;-) > > best, > > alek >
