Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook visual editor

[Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>]

> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 02:33:35PM +0200, Irene Vatton wrote:
> > Yes, the Amaya team is also developing now a general support of XML where
> > the document structure is generated at the same time the document instance
> > is parsed.
> 
> Hm... do you mean that the structure will be derived from an XML DTD
> (instead of from a S file), or from a DTD-less XML document ?

The structure will be derived from a DTD-less XML document.
We generate the minimum S file (in fact the similar internal structure) 
that allows the thotlib to handle the document instance.
Today we are able to parse an XML document and to display its formatted
view (only the text is displayed) + structure view + source view.

> What about the current CSS support, BTW ?  Is CSS usable instead of
> Thot's P language ?

Not yet. We need to develop our CSS implementation to take more advantage
of the Thot's P language.

> > If you plan to develop a Docbook authoring tool I suggest you to proceed 
> > like we did in Amaya for HTML, SVG and MathML. We use generic functions of
> > the thotlib for handling the document tree + presentation + WYSIWYG editing
> > and we connect to the thotlib specific functions that control the semantic 
> > of the application. The thotlib allows you to do that easily.
> 
> That looks reasonable.  We shall look at this and probably retarget
> our efforts.
> 
> Thanks for these clarifications.
> -- 
> Yann Dirson <Yann.Dirson@fr.alcove.com>                 http://www.alcove.com/
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