Re: [lepido-dev] Auto Generating forms from XSD

[Sylvain Wallez <sylvain@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ross Gardler wrote:

> Sylvain Wallez wrote:
>
> > Ross Gardler wrote:
> >
> > > I don't like work and I find I'm doing an increasing amount of work 
> > > in cocoon forms right now so...
> > >
> > > I'd like to build a system that will do the following:
> > >
> > > - create form models, templates and bindings from XSD definitions
> > > - create the necessary CRUD flow scripts
> > > - build the webapp
> > >
> > > There is more information about the kind of solution I want to build 
> > > recently added to the Cocoon wiki [1]
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure this is in the scope of the Lepido project. I'm 
> > > failry new to forms, but think I've grapsed the basics and can move 
> > > forward with this if folk here are willing to give me oversight. 
> > > Shall I just get on with it and send in patches?
> >
> >
> > Please do. Wizards to quickly lay out the basics of an application 
> > are definitely in the scope of Lepido, and we'll have several of them 
> > targeting the repetitive tasks and frequent application patterns that 
> > people encounter when writing applications.
>
>
> OK, I'm working on this in my "copious" spare time.


Isn't that you that said "I don't like working" above? That should have 
been "I don't like working on repetivite things and love working on 
tools to avoid them" :-P

> > > First stage would be to create a wizard to build a framework 
> > > application to do the above. Again, there is one on the Cocoon wiki 
> > > [2] - should I contact the author regarding donating it to Lepido.
> >
> >
> > E-Crud looks promising, although I don't know what format the initial 
> > model uses (I only had a quick look though). Also, it's GPL'ed.
>
>
> Yes, I've started working on my own implementation of this because of 
> the GPL license, but the basic ide is the same.


Great!

> > The schema2forms was written by people from Hippo. Arje Cahn and Max 
> > Pfingsthorn told me at ApacheCon that they've been working on 
> > something more advanced that they plan to donate to Cocoon.
>
>
> Cool - for now I'l just work with their existing stylesheets.
>
> > It's time to ping them about this :-) Arje, Max, what about this stuff?
>
>
> If nothing comes up here I'll ask on the Cocoon dev lists, obviously 
> we need to collaborate on this.


Yup. Such tools may also have a command-line interface, so we have to 
decide if Lepido hosts the whole thing (including the CLI) or if it 
limits itself to a nice front-end to something that is shipped with Cocoon.

Up to now, there has been no tools in Cocoon, so Lepido may be the place 
for them. From a marketing POV also, providing CLI tools may be a way to 
attract people that are still reluctant to using Eclipse :-)

We'll see what the Hippo folks say about it (BTW, Arje is on vacation 
next week)

Sylvain

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