Hello Sushant,
I download and ran that little app
Let me understand your requirement a little better:
a) the documents that they are scanning, and running through OCR, are
printed XML documents? Or are you taking freetext output from OCR and
running it through a program to create XML?
b) The user who is editing the text is non-technical and we don't want them
to (1) deal with xml tags, and (2) screw up the XML structure, right?
c) The user should be able to see the results of their editing in a WYSIWYG
environment but they cannot change the structure or layout (unlike the demo,
which runs in IE and doesn't enforce either structure or layout). Is that
correct?
d) When the user is done, the user should have the ability to "submit"
somehow, and the item saved is a valid XML file.
e) You mention a DTD. Is a Schema available? Would it be OK if you created
a schema from the DTD?
f) The person editing the text can be training on simple editing
capabilities, but you don't want them changing the formatting, right?
g) The goal of the WYSIWYG is to allow the user to "see" how their text
will look in the layout so that they can change it as needed. Correct?
Am I on the same page?
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Hi Nick,
Thanks for the feedback. I looked at the Demo for InfoPath and it
seems like its used for Forms. We need the editor to be much like the
demo provided here :-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...xmldocedit.asp
The idea being, that a user can for instance, scan a document, get the
generated text from the OCR (which will be an XML file) and edit that
using an editor.
Therefore, there might be a CSS style sheet etc for that. From my
knowledge MSXML is used for applications like that.
However, I am told that MSXML is quite a difficult tool to master so
thats why we were hunting for components.
As far as Altova goes, they have XMLSpy which is already a GUI based
product. We need a control or the code for something like that.
Jon - I hope this answers your question as to why we are using XML. The
link i put in there is an example of that.
Thanks Nick and Jon for your replies. Hope to hear more for you two.
Sushant Bhatia