XTiger XML editing with AXEL demos

By Stéphane Sire

This space shows some samples of editing applications that can be created with XTiger XML document templates. The following links open the document template sometimes with an initial XML content, which is stored in an external XML file. You can edit it, then using the menu bar, you can eventually save the document you created to a file name of your invention (only if the demos are run from a WebDAV server). Alternatively, you can also "Dump" the document to see it's XML content.

Actually you can try the following templates:

• Curriculum shows a curriculum vitae
• Carte shows a restaurant menu card (in collaboration with Madeinlocal.com)
• Cafe shows a page that describes a bar or a restaurant (in collaboration with Madeinlocal.com)
• Article is the template used to write XML Prague 2010 article on AXEL and XTiger XML. It works with an image filter which must be packaged inside the library. It also works with a wiki filter to allow simple formating in paragraphs and to enter hypertext links.
• Projet shows a student project description such as the one displayed at MEDIA student projects
• Publications shows a bibliography
• Taches shows a basic project task management record (in French)
• Tickets shows a basic ticket for a bug or feature tracking system
• Story shows an experimental template with an input filter that allows user's input to change the style of the document. It also uses the image filter that supports DnD on Firefox (3.6). Such template could be used to create pages in a Wiki for instance. It opens with a document that includes images on the Web, so you must have your Internet connection turned on.
• Tutorial shows a tutorial with all the different kind of editors supported with the core library
• Workpackage shows a European Project Workpackage description template, currently the default wp1.xml shows an XSLT generated view of this data ready to be included in a project proposal. Note that currently if you save data over wp1.xml you won't get any more the XSL transformation when opening it, this is because dumping the XML content of the document does not preserve stylesheet processing instructions, we are working on that.
• HTML Editing shows an experimental XHTML documents that you can edit with an generic Web page template by following the edit link

In all the cases above, if the Save button is visible and functional (i.e. the demos are run through a WebDAV server), do not forget to do a page reload after you saved a document to be sure you get the latest version as we have some unresolved issues with the cache and WebDAV.

Each of these templates generates a different XML content model. You may read the XTiger XML Language specification if you want to learn how to create templates for your own XML content model. 

These templates should be best viewed and edited with Firefox, they should also work with the other browsers (Safari, Opera, Chrome, Internet Explorer). Please let me know if you encounter a problem viewing one of them.

XTiger XML is based on research done with the MEDIA research group at EPFL, and in collaboration with the project WAM at INRIA.

Last update: Mars 10, 2010