Re: [Exist-development] List of collection actions for administration tool

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

Thomas,

> The solution for the web client I have in mind id not based on XForms.  It
> is a XQuery+ XSLT application fframework, that can generate content in two
> modes - interactive AJAX pages and plain HTML pages.

aha, so this is an important question. I have no problem with AJAX in
principle. Actually, I already started to create an XQuery module
which generates code for Yahoo UI in the admin client (see
webapp/admin/yahoo-ui.xql). It is used for the tabs in the profiling
view and I planned to extend it to cover other widgets.

However, we should make sure that everyone interested can contribute
to the project. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think an XForms
based interface will allow more people to help. XForms is an important
tool in the XML toolbox which could be demonstrated this way. On the
other hand, some features won't be possible with plain XForms, e.g.
tree views (though I personally think web applications should not try
to mimic every feature of a desktop app).

Well, we fortunately have some XForms experts here (Dan, Kurt)...

Wolfgang