XSLT WYSIWYG editor?

[milkyway (archive)]

Hello once more,

Sorry if this question has already been asked but here goes:

Does such a thing as a WYSIWYG XSLT editor exist? If so, where might one download this?

TIA

 

[Iain Robinson]

Hello once more,

Sorry if this question has already been asked but here goes:

Does such a thing as a WYSIWYG XSLT editor exist? If so, where might one download this?

TIA

Altova's XMLSpy does this -- http://www.xmlspy.com .... but more than a time limited demo will cost you - dont know of any free software that has wysiwig functionality...but if you find some let me know

P@

 

[Peter Flynn]

Altova's XMLSpy does this -- http://www.xmlspy.com .... but more than a time limited demo will cost you - dont know of any free software that has wysiwig functionality...but if you find some let me know

There have been several attempts, and at least one in-depth research project (at INRIA) into how to do this. They've all stumbled up against the same problem: there is an infinite number of "things" people want to do with the output, so it is impossible to write a generalised XSLT GUI. All you can do is write one to cover a sepcified subset of features and hope those are the ones your users want. I've used Spy and it's fine -- within the limits is sets. Unfortunately I want to do other things it can't do unaided, so I go back to using XSLide.

Followups set to c.t.x -- this really has nothing whatever to do with Java.

///Peter