[seek-dev] Fwd: EML2 Editor
higgins@nceas.ucsb.edu
higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu
Thu Oct 23 10:07:03 PDT 2003
Hi SEEkers,
This email provides the link to the pre-beta tree eml2 display editor
mentioned at the last seek meeting.
----- Forwarded message from Dan Higgins <higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu> -----
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:36:14 -0700
From: Dan Higgins <higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu>
Reply-To: higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu
Subject: EML2 Editor
To: Saurabh Garg <sgarg at nceas.ucsb.edu>, "Eml-Dev (eml-
dev at ecoinformatics.org)" <eml-dev at ecoinformatics.org>
Hi All,
There is now a 'pre-beta' version of a free EML2 editor that some of
you might want to look at. To try out this currently-existing eml2
editor, download XMLEdit.zip from
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~higgins/XMLEdit
<http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~higgins/XMLEdit>
Although eml2 was released some time ago, the only ways to create an
eml2 document have been to use a text editor, perhaps use the eml2
export function in the released version of Morpho, or use a commercial
software product like XMLSpy, Commercial products are expensive, while
using a text editor requires an effort to understand the structure of
eml2 before one knows how to create valid eml2 documents.
The above link connects to a zip file which, when expanded, results in a
directory called XMLEdit. This is basically just a version of the Morpho
code with a greatly speeded-up XML editor. If you expand the zip file
and then start the program using 'editor.bat' (on Windows), you will see
a screen similar to that shown below. (A Java Virtual Machine, version
>= 1.3, is required.) [Actual, the screen shown was created by
clicking the .New EML2' button, and then expanding the resulting tree
on the left.]
As can be seen, this eml2 editor can display the entire potential
structure of and eml2 document along with the help information for the
various elements. Various sequences and choices defined in the eml
schema are also displayed in the tree on the left. It is thus thought
that this can be a useful tool for anyone trying to understand the
structure of eml2, in addition to allowing one to create eml2 documents.
Just fill in the elements of interest and save the result.
Again, it is emphasized that this is a very PRELIMINARY VERSION. It
almost certainly has 'bugs'. However, the tree display of the eml2
structure has been very useful to me and may be to others, even if there
are some problems with the code. Please feel free to ask questions,
report problems, etc.
Dan Higgins - NCEAS
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