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Generating Schema-Aware XML Editors in XForms

2013; Volume: 11; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4242/balisagevol11.bruggemann-klein01

1947-2609

Mustapha Maalej, Anne Brüggemann-Klein,

Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing

From XForms, it is possible to provide simple user interfaces for editing XML documents. From an XSD schema, it is possible to see which elements and attributes may occur in valid documents and in which combinations. The XFGen system brings these together. XFGen builds an XForm from an XSD schema. That XForm can load, edit, and save any XML instance conforming to the schema. XFGen guarantees that every user interaction with the editor will preserve the validity of the instance. XForms makes it easy to edit structurally fixed XML-encoded forms; XFGen’s editors go beyond this simple case to allow arbitrary structural changes to the document.