Re: [PyWrapper-devel] Editing metadata in configTool

[Javier de la T. <ja...@gm...>]

Right right...

I checked also implementations on Python and I couldnt find...
As you said doing a much simpler tool that just read and produce this
xml is much simpler... I managed to configure the PHP stuff you gave
me in Tervuren, but did not have time to work on changing it for
DHTML. I will then use very simple python to generate the XML and
write in the file...

Javi.

On 7/31/06, Renato De Giovanni <re...@cr...> wrote:
> Hi Javi,
>
> We already talked about this last week, but I think it's interesting to
> leave a message in the mailing list as well.
>
> Dave Thau tried the same approach (XForms) some years ago when he was
> developing the configurator for the PHP provider. You can still find his
> code in the DiGIR CVS repository on sourceforge. It's Java, I think. But
> at that time I remember he said that the tools were not ready for XForms,
> and so the PHP provider ended up with the web configurator that I was
> developing simultaneously.
>
> I'm not sure what's the current status of XForms libraries (maybe they are
> ready?). So if there's something for Python, maybe you could try.
>
> The web configurator that I developed for the PHP provider makes use of
> similar XForms functionalities - it builds the metadata form based on a
> piece of XML Schema. However, I must say that during all these years the
> DiGIR metadata NEVER changed. So a much simpler piece of PHP code would
> have done the job more quickly and easily. And personally I think the
> TAPIR metadata is really nice, so I wouldn't be surprised if it also keeps
> unchanged for many years.
>
> Another thing to note is that any XForms library that you may decide to
> use will need to be able to handle xsd:imports mixing elements from
> different namespaces & XML Schemas, since TAPIR uses DublinCore, VCard,
> GeoPoint, etc...
>
> Regards,
> --
> Renato
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Actually there is no editor for the metadata in the PyWrapper
> > configuration tool. The metadata is stored in an XML document
> > comformant to the TAPIR XML schema.
> >
> > It looks like the perfect scenario to try XForms. We read the XML
> > schema to generate the HTML with the form to edit and then we
> > serialize with XUpdate to update the XML document...
> >
> > In a perfect world this would be automatically done and we would not
> > have to program anything, but... anybody has tried something like
> > this?
> >
> > Here is a list of XForms implementations:
> > http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/#implementations
> >
> > And here are two funny projects that I dont think we can consider but
> > that I find curious.
> >
> > http://bitfluxeditor.org/demo/
> > http://xopus.com/demo/
> >
> > Cheers.
>
>
>
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