André wrote: "Have you looked at the EditTag (in mmbase cvs speeltuin)? With it you can edit the nodes and fields (little subcloud) on a page. In some conversations with people we talked about (also) using a XML to get some more flexibility in using the editors with which you try to edit the content the EditTag provides.
Maybe you have some ideas how we should let the EditTag provide editors with xml? And maybe the editor you are thinking of can use the same tag? Discussion about which attributes it should have etc. is still open." Hi André, the problem for me lies with standard HTML, so implimentations based on it are part of that problem. When there are complex relationships, it's easy to get lost, difficult to validate relationships, impossible to validate a cloud or a composite object that is formed from relationships. Flash offers scripts which allow for socket communications using an XML exchange, so it seems like it's scalable in terms of solving the problem. It's also scalable quite easily in terms of front-end logic and allows for complex data structures, making life easier and easier when trying to do difficult things with editwizards - javascript just gets harder and harder at this point. If we use our imagination a little, the entire relationships structure could be presented to the user, complete with 4 degrees of movement (ie scrolling panels), metadata loaded for applying business rules, real-time data exchange with the server, full validation - ie. all aspects of the data, and it can do groovy visuals too :-) I see it as part of the content as well, not just an admin tool, but a mechanism to capture data for web applications which are more than just websites. In this case, being visually scalable is important. I'd like to attempt the solution myself, but would like suggestions on the architecture, design, data structure for the meta-builder, etc. -Emile _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list Developers@lists.mmbase.org http://lists.mmbase.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
