I think it would be pretty cool to integrate an XML editor into the application builder. The application builder creates a nice front-end for searching for data, and if the displayable data is obviously in need of correction, then the ability to edit the displayed data on the fly would be pretty awesome.
Tim Meagher - AAOM Consulting -----Original Message----- From: general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-boun...@developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Geert Josten Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:51 PM To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion Subject: RE: [MarkLogic Dev General] xopus + marklogic? Laurens, all, > Thanks for your interest in our product. We are currently > building an integration with MarkLogic for one of our own > customers. In that case we use the Java API to connect to > MarkLogic from a different server. A proof of concept > implementation can be much simpler than that as Geert already > pointed out. I have asked one of our developers to quickly > build the small mockup Geert was referring to. > > The WebDAV API is only suitable for a load/save roundtrip > optionally with locking. In addition you'll need a user > interface for content management (create/delete documents, > search for documents to edit, etc). > Typically we use WebDAV when Xopus is integrated into a CMS > which offers such user interface. In this case you either > will have to develop that workflow or purchase a product > which integrates both (like RSuite). For what kind of > workflow are you planning to use Xopus? The last question is meant for Jakob, but people might be interested in my use case as well. I was looking for a small XML editor that can be used within a browser to manipulate XML documents within MarkLogic Server databases directly. Some while ago Eric Palmitesta came up with a scaffolding tool, that was basically a HTML form generated out of XML that allowed some basic editing. But a real XML editor, especially as light weight as Xopus, would be much nicer. Though Xopus can be fully configured for real editing, my use case is more in the line of a development tool that allows debugging and fixing small issues in XML documents within the databases directly. For similar reasons I had developed a database browser earlier as well, which looks a lot similar to the way you can browse SVN repositories through HTTP (in the simplest way). It was easy enough to drop Xopus in a MarkLogic Appserver, and create a SaveToXQY example. Making the Xopus 'island' dynamic was a bit harder, but that hadn't really much to do with Xopus itself. It looks like I have things working more or less now. Since this database browser was running on an HTTP Appserver the most logical choice was to use HTTP to access documents from Xopus, using only a few small helper xqueries. Accessing through WEBDAV is equally complex though, but would require an additional Appserver; WEBDAVTools instead of HTTPTools object of Xopus and slightly different JavaScript logic. Now, one of my problems was that I don't have an XML Schema for all my documents. I know, bad practice, but I tend to be too lazy to add a namespace to config files and such. Let alone creating XML Schemas for them. The Xopus configuration does allow turning off validation (though an initial validation is still executed so it seems), but it won't do without an XML Schema. Luckily it is easy to generate a temporary one using xquery.. ;-) Kind regards, Geert Drs. G.P.H. Josten Consultant http://www.daidalos.nl/ Daidalos BV Source of Innovation Hoekeindsehof 1-4 2665 JZ Bleiswijk Tel.: +31 (0) 10 850 1200 Fax: +31 (0) 10 850 1199 http://www.daidalos.nl/ KvK 27164984 De informatie - verzonden in of met dit emailbericht - is afkomstig van Daidalos BV en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onbedoeld hebt ontvangen, verzoeken wij u het te verwijderen. Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@developer.marklogic.com http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
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