Eric van der Vlist wrote: > Le mercredi 02 f?vrier 2005 ? 14:07 +0100, Hussein Shafie a ?crit : > > >>Another mechanism, more standard and more elegant, would allow you to >>do that too: Schematron. See >>http://xml.ascc.net/resource/schematron/schematron.html. >> >>Therefore I'm going to add the support of *Schematron* to our User's >>Wish List. > > > That's a wonderful idea, probably both very useful for the users and > very easy to implement for you.
"very easy to implement" ==> will almost certainly be implemented. > In a different domain, another (but more challenging) standard that > would be nice to get in XXE would be XForms. > > I think that XXE and XForms are almost perfectly complementary. > > XXE is very good in editing mixed content but its form based edition > mechanism is, hmmm... let's say not standard. We have identified a big modularity problem with the way our forms are specified. We intend to fix this problem. And we think that this will greatly improve our ``proprietary'' form technology (which has the advantage of being lightweight) > On the other hand, XForms is very good at describing forms > but doesn't support mixed content editing. > > Being able to embed mixed content editing in XForms text areas and vice > versa, being able to embed forms within documents would be very powerful I don't know XForms well enough to be able to give you an opinion. I need to read the specs, or better, to read a good book about XForms. > (this is more or less what OpenOffice will add in their 2.0). I'm impatient to see this new feature in OpenOffice 2.0 and to compare the functionality it provides to what has been done by Microsoft Word/Microsoft Infopath (not XForms based).
