Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good xml editor that could be used
to assist the creation of SLD styles, WFS requests and the like.
The ideal candidate would have:
* ability to handle xml schemas
* code completion while writing the xml file (based on the schema)
* graphical or semi graphical view of a schema and xml file
(an explorer like tree is ok)
* free and open source
(anyways, if you have any suggestions that does not match all
of them the mention is welcomed... stuff like xml spy would
qualify, thought I think it's way too expensive fro the task
at hand).
The reason I'm asking is that users are often faced with the task
of crafting a non trivial SLD or a valid WFS request, doing so
without tools is painful.
I personally use Eclipse, that provides all of the above, but
it's a programming environment and it's probably a bit too big
and too feature packed.
I'm kind of thinking of taking Eclipse, strip down all unnecessary
bits, include by default all the ogc schemas and a set of sample
SLD and WFS files with the proper schema locations (so that
code completion would work) and pack it as an "OGC xml editor".
I have a proof of concept (for windows) sitting on my disk that
would be a 56MB download (zipped). Do you think it would be
interesting, or just a waste of time?
Cheers
Andrea
I think the OGC xml editor you describe would be useful, especially for
constructing SLDs. It also might help if it could be used to validate the
GeoServer config files (catalog.xml, services.xml) to help out those who
edit them directly.
I've used the Oxygen XML editor for around a year
(http://www.oxygenxml.com). It's $48 for an academic/non-profit license.
It may also be too feature packed, but it has nice error messages for the
schema validation and has a useful XSLT debugger. It also has code
completion based on the schema. If I remember correctly, I think I first
heard about the Oxygen editor from a workshop led by someone from Galdos,
who said it was his favorite editor for working with GML.
- Tyler
aaime wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good xml editor that could be used
to assist the creation of SLD styles, WFS requests and the like.
The ideal candidate would have:
* ability to handle xml schemas
* code completion while writing the xml file (based on the schema)
* graphical or semi graphical view of a schema and xml file
(an explorer like tree is ok)
* free and open source
(anyways, if you have any suggestions that does not match all
of them the mention is welcomed... stuff like xml spy would
qualify, thought I think it's way too expensive fro the task
at hand).
The reason I'm asking is that users are often faced with the task
of crafting a non trivial SLD or a valid WFS request, doing so
without tools is painful.
I personally use Eclipse, that provides all of the above, but
it's a programming environment and it's probably a bit too big
and too feature packed.
I'm kind of thinking of taking Eclipse, strip down all unnecessary
bits, include by default all the ogc schemas and a set of sample
SLD and WFS files with the proper schema locations (so that
code completion would work) and pack it as an "OGC xml editor".
I have a proof of concept (for windows) sitting on my disk that
would be a 56MB download (zipped). Do you think it would be
interesting, or just a waste of time?
Cheers
Andrea
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Hello Andrea,
I find this interesting and I think there's definitely a need for such an OGC/XML editor.
As you intend to code for eclipse, why not talk to the udig people and try to find a place in their svn for the editor? (I know they have a community space.) I think udig could profit from this.
Cheers,
Ugo
Andrea Aime wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good xml editor that could be used
to assist the creation of SLD styles, WFS requests and the like.
The ideal candidate would have:
* ability to handle xml schemas
* code completion while writing the xml file (based on the schema)
* graphical or semi graphical view of a schema and xml file
(an explorer like tree is ok)
* free and open source
(anyways, if you have any suggestions that does not match all
of them the mention is welcomed... stuff like xml spy would
qualify, thought I think it's way too expensive fro the task
at hand).
The reason I'm asking is that users are often faced with the task
of crafting a non trivial SLD or a valid WFS request, doing so
without tools is painful.
I personally use Eclipse, that provides all of the above, but
it's a programming environment and it's probably a bit too big
and too feature packed.
I'm kind of thinking of taking Eclipse, strip down all unnecessary
bits, include by default all the ogc schemas and a set of sample
SLD and WFS files with the proper schema locations (so that
code completion would work) and pack it as an "OGC xml editor".
I have a proof of concept (for windows) sitting on my disk that
would be a 56MB download (zipped). Do you think it would be
interesting, or just a waste of time?
Cheers
Andrea
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Ugo Taddei ha scritto:
Hello Andrea,
I find this interesting and I think there's definitely a need for such an OGC/XML editor.
As you intend to code for eclipse, why not talk to the udig people and try to find a place in their svn for the editor? (I know they have a community space.) I think udig could profit from this.
At the moment I took a low tech road that does not involve coding:
I just took an Eclipse download, stripped the unecessary plugins,
setup a default workspace with OGC schemas and a few example.
If it's not too hard I would like to provide some templates, eventually change the splash and be done with it.
I may end up setting up a project somewhere so contributions will be
more than welcomed (hint hint) 
Cheers
Andrea
Hi Andrea,
Andrea Aime wrote:
Ugo Taddei ha scritto:
Hello Andrea,
I find this interesting and I think there's definitely a need for such an OGC/XML editor.
As you intend to code for eclipse, why not talk to the udig people and try to find a place in their svn for the editor? (I know they have a community space.) I think udig could profit from this.
At the moment I took a low tech road that does not involve coding:
I just took an Eclipse download, stripped the unecessary plugins,
setup a default workspace with OGC schemas and a few example.
If it's not too hard I would like to provide some templates, eventually change the splash and be done with it.
I may end up setting up a project somewhere so contributions will be
more than welcomed (hint hint)
Ok, ok. Can you put it somewhere for download? Let us have a look at it. Currently I'm not doing a lot of XML (but that might change overnight 
Anyway, I do know some people that'd love to get their hands dirty with this.
Cheers
Andrea
Ciao,
Ugo
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Department Knowledge Discovery - IAIS.KD -
Working Group Spatial Decision Support
http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/kd.html
phone (+49)2241-14-2184 fax (+49)2241-14-2072
Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
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