RE: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable preferences library

[Richard S. <Ric...@ei...>]

> I'll repeat myself and say Infopath adds a whole new=20
> dimension of usefullness
> to XML. If you think IE showing XMLs color-coded and collapsible,
> or even with a custom stylesheet, is cool, imagine building a sensible
> user interface for editing complex structures, with=20
> validation, in hours not days.=20

I did go and take a look, but there was no downloadable trial, and I
don't want to wait for MS to post me a CD from the US. They did provide
an interactive demo, which was in fact just someone trying to tell
me how great it was without actually telling me what it did. Score
one for marketing, nill for development.

It seemed to me that it provided a way to lay out a GUI to allow
data input to static XML. One requirement we have is that on selecting
a piece of data, the GUI changes to show a set of possible choices.
Essneitally, we want the GUI to guide the designer into using the
correct data structure.

Is this what InfoPath is supposed to do? Does it dynamically change
the GUI depending on current choices? Or is it static forms of
data which represent an instance of the data the XML represents?

Alternatively, is there way of downloading the trial version?

Rich