Re: [Medlane-xmlmarc] xml authoring tools on web

[Kevin S. C. <ksc...@st...>]

Hi,

I am not aware of any bibliographic-specific editing tools that would
allow you to edit records in a nice form-based way and then store in a
database.  There are tools that would allow you to create those types of
editors (Cocoon's XForms implementation (Woody) or Chiba's XForms
implementation), but none that I know of that are ready out-of-the-box
for bibliographic records.

We did have a student worker create a form-based editor for
bibliographic records about two years ago.  I'd be glad to send you the
code for that, but no one has looked at it for awhile so I'm not sure
how much work it would be to get it installed and working.  If you are
interested, though, just let me know.

This is not what you were asking, I know, but since they are just plain
XML records you could use any generic XML editor.  There are a bunch of
those at xmlsoftware.com.  Some are form-based but I believe you'd still
have to write the stylesheets to describe how you want them displayed.

Kevin


On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 21:05, Amir Parsi Esfahani wrote:
> Dear list
>   The idea of putting bibliographic records as XMLs in native
> databases is good. But I'm wondering how a user can edit
> a given record in a user friendly environment. Is there any tool for
> it. 
>   Assume someone is going to create a new bibliographic record and
> save it in xml form in a database. I am looking for some tools that
> could be used for user interface, a wise html Form, or something like
> this. Can anyone help?
>  
> Regards
> Amir Parsi Esfahani
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