I work for a textbook publisher and we have similar requirements. Basically, you need a client that will generate some form of valid XML or XHTML. From this, you can transform and store it in a way that works for your application. There are a couple of possibilities that I know of. Each depends on the complexity of your metadata:
1. New content can be created via open office's document tool or any of the other word processing packages that output XML. Most of these packages enable you to build macros that map style settings to metadata. 2. Existing, dynamic content can be updated via a text field using DHTML to enable minimal markup (like most blogging tools), a Java client, or Flash. Our meta-data's pretty complex, so we've developed a Flash interface based on Macromedia's Rich Text Editor component. -----Original Message----- From: Conal Tuohy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Content Updating You can use the SourceWritingTransformer to update your documents using Cocoon pipelines. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brent L Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 21 November 2003 10:28 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Content Updating > > > I want my customers (other employees of the company I work > with) to be able to update their own content. I'm a web developer, > and Im not really interested in doing content updates all day long. > > I'm using Cocoon for their production site (or will be when > it goes live end-of-this-year) and I was wondering if anyone had > any suggestions on how I can update the XML documents Im using > as the generators in my pipelines. > > Sure I can have them modify the XML files - but we're talking > less-than-savy technical people here.. and I dont think they'll > grasp the concept of conforming to XML formats and such. > > I can load then into a form.. thats easy.. but is there a way > to "save out to XML" or some such? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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