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Re: Small THREDDS catalogs and the Proposed new specification for THREDDSS Catalogs



Hi All,

John Caron wrote:
Hi benno:

Benno Blumenthal wrote:

John Caron wrote:

There will be great benefits in switching to the 1.0 spec, as you note above, esp in connecting to Digital Libaries and providing the raw data for search services.

Does it include an automatic editing interface easily accessible to everyone?

yes, we are working on a editing interface to make this easy.
If one believes the hype then using W3C Schema should also allow for use of "generic" XML editing tools. 

I have used XML Spy (a commercial product) which does validate as you prepare the instance document.  It lets you know via the GUI what elements and attributes (and restricted attribute values) are available at any particular level in the instance document, but I'll be the first to admit it's really a tool to help experts (not novice users) prepare documents.

Other tools might also work.  For example:

XAmple XML Editor Description from the Publisher
Java Swing based XML editor that analyzes a given schema and then generates a document-specific graphical user interface. Unlike other XML editors, the XAmple XML editor GUI exposes not just a tree representation of the XML document but rather a logical combination of the XML document and respective XML Schema. To be able to prepare valid XML documents of significant complexity, a user is not required to be familiar with XML and XML Schema languages and to have any a-priori knowledge about the documents structural requirements.

I have not tried this as yet, but I will be trying it out in conjunction with the new LAS XML schema we're developing.  Anybody else have experience with this product or others?

Roland