Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-28 Thread Nico Klasens
Hello Pierre, I finally found the time to read your proposal. First I don't really get why there are datatypes in the definition. Most of the stuff is present in the old defintion files and only because they couldn't be requested from mmbase. I don't think it is a good idea to introduce this.

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-28 Thread Nico Klasens
Pierre van Rooden wrote: I received the iteration process a week ago, with the newly proposed structure, which looks promising. The main question I have concerns the replacement of DOM with POJO. My question is how you will solve the use of xpaths. If you plan backward compatibility these need

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-28 Thread Pierre van Rooden
Nico Klasens wrote: I tried not to use xpaths in the wizards, but I know a lot of others did. Before we can do the iteration to remove the data DOM we will inquire which xpaths are now in use and how we can provide a better way to support the functionality they implement. The most used xpath

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-28 Thread André van Toly
Op 28-jun-2005, om 14:40 heeft Pierre van Rooden het volgende geschreven: action type=create relation role=posrel !-- set field pos form the posrel relation -- field name=pos{sum(//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'posrel' and @lastitem='true']/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'pos'])+{$pos}}/field

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-09 Thread Kees Jongenburger
What are the key technologies used? The wizards make extensive use of xslt to transform xmls into web forms. The client-side of the wizards uses DHTML, javascript, and CSS for client-side functionality. Java-libraries used include DOM and the MMBase query model. The

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-07 Thread Michiel Meeuwissen
Pierre van Rooden wrote: Michiel Meeuwissen wrote: Rincewind - Edit Wizzard 2.0 Project Document What is 'Rincewind'? Now, really. Go read some Terry Pratchett. boring! ;-) Well, the methodolgy as described here can also be used in MMBase, i.e. through inclusion in the builder xmls or

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-07 Thread Wouter Huijnink
I would like to see a generic javascript library which can validate arbitrary fields. This library can then be used in editwizards, but also in other HTML's. check http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/validator/ The validator framework provides server-side validation as well as the possibiliy to

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-06 Thread Kees Jongenburger
bash-2.05b$ xmllint -valid project.xml l project.xml:72: element formalpara: validity error : Element formalpara content does not follow the DTD, expecting (title , indexterm* , para), got (title para para ) /formalpara ^ just like any xml that is edited by hand it

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-06 Thread Pierre van Rooden
Kees Jongenburger wrote: just like any xml that is edited by hand it is a nightmare. Sorry, all formalpara tags should be section tags. Silly me. At this point I don't care any more about technique. I just care about how easy it is to use and if there is a non xml based way of creating

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-06 Thread Pierre van Rooden
Ok, to make it a bit easier: the project proposal in pdf format. -- Pierre van Rooden Mediapark, C 107 tel. +31 (0)35 6772815 Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. project.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document ___ Developers mailing list

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-06 Thread Kees Jongenburger
An editwizard editor would be nice, yes. Would also take some time to build though. Perhaps there is someone out there willing to sponsor development of such an editor? I woud love to spend some time on it (if it's swing based that is) ___ Developers

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-06 Thread Michiel Meeuwissen
Pierre van Rooden wrote: Ok, to make it a bit easier: the project proposal in pdf format. To make it even easier, and 'replyable'. Here a version in ASCII. Rincewind - Edit Wizzard 2.0 Project Document Pierre van Rooden This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is

Re: [Developers] Proposal for a Editwizzard II project (codename 'Rincewind')

2005-06-06 Thread Michiel Meeuwissen
Pierre van Rooden wrote: Rincewind - Edit Wizzard 2.0 Project Document What is 'Rincewind'? What is the purpose of this project? Expanding the MMBase edit wizards with functionality that makes it easier to extend with custom scripts (server or client-side), and adding