[Mozile] Editing xml files

[Paul Everitt]

Thanks for doing this, James.  I tried the .xml in the tests  
directory this weekend and couldn't make it work.  Perfect timing. :^)

I'm interested in trying to get XHTML 2 editing working next month.

--Paul

On Jun 25, 2006, at 12:25 AM, James A. Overton wrote:

> 	Two new XML+CSS editing demos are available. Right now they only  
> work in Firefox 1.5:
>
> http://mozile.mozdev.org/0.8/demo/docbook.xml
> Demonstrates DocBook editing, using a simplified RNG schema for  
> DocBook. (The full DocBook schema is quite complex and Mozile's RNG  
> system can't handle it yet.)
>
> http://mozile.mozdev.org/0.8/demo/address.xml
> Demonstrates generic XML editing without an RNG schema. See the  
> http://mozile.mozdev.org/0.8/demo/address.js file for the  
> configuration. The most important new method is mozile.editAllText 
> (rich) -- it enables a set of default editing commands. When "rich"  
> is false, only basic text editing inside elements is allowed. When  
> "rich" is true elements can be split, merged, and removed.
>
> In order to make this work I've completed the mozile.editElement(),  
> editElement(), and editDocument() methods. You can now use these  
> methods instead of setting the contentEditable attribute. To make  
> sure that they will work properly, you probably want to wait until  
> the document is loaded before calling them, using code like this:
> window.onload = function() {
> 	mozile.editElements("editor");
> }
> See http://mozile.mozdev.org/0.8/core/mozile.js for an example.
> 	The documentation hasn't been updated yet. I'll do that tomorrow.
>
> James
>
>
>
> On 2006-Jun-24, at 9:14 AM, James A. Overton wrote:
>> ...
>> 	I'll take some time today to see if I can get a proper XML  
>> editing demo up and running. It won't do validation (which will  
>> take a while longer) but it'll show you what's possible. I'll post  
>> a followup when I have something.
>> ...
>>
>> On 2006-Jun-24, at 2:10 AM, Kenneth Dunbar wrote:
>>
>>> I am looking for a elegant way to allow some non-technical people  
>>> to edit
>>> xml file, which feed a web site.  Essentially setting up a simple  
>>> content
>>> management system.  I was hoping that Mozile would be the answer,  
>>> however it
>>> will not allow me to edit an xml file that is presented with a  
>>> xsl.  Anybody
>>> know of a way around this?  Or possibly a way to edit an xml file  
>>> presented
>>> in some format other than one big long line? (which is what you  
>>> see if you
>>> try to edit an xml file without an associated stylesheet.
>>>
>>> kd
>>>
>>>
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