Create UI from XSD?
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Hey Jeese, thanks for the great response. We've looked at Altova's Authenticate framework but I don't think anyone has looked at XMetal. Marc
One more detail: I went looking for XMetal specifically because of Authentic performance problems. My team was writing an editor based on another department's existing framework, but the borrowed code was excruciatingly slow with any schema-based XML document over 1/2mb. Their editing control was written in C# as a thin wrapper around the Authentic ActiveX control, so we started looking for drop-in replacements. Just seeing both controls render simple, unstyled XML showed a big enough performance diff to convince our users to fund the per-seat XMetal costs. Just scrolling a 2mb document in Authentic was awful, so we never looked back. YMMV--that was back in '03/04, so maybe Authentic has improved. I think someone already mentioned this: if you want a really interesting browser-based solution to rendering UI from XSD, check out XForms. It will take a lot of additional plumbing before major browsers have native implementations, but there are plenty of plugins that can render them today.
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One more detail: I went looking for XMetal specifically because of Authentic performance problems. My team was writing an editor based on another department's existing framework, but the borrowed code was excruciatingly slow with any schema-based XML document over 1/2mb. Their editing control was written in C# as a thin wrapper around the Authentic ActiveX control, so we started looking for drop-in replacements. Just seeing both controls render simple, unstyled XML showed a big enough performance diff to convince our users to fund the per-seat XMetal costs. Just scrolling a 2mb document in Authentic was awful, so we never looked back. YMMV--that was back in '03/04, so maybe Authentic has improved. I think someone already mentioned this: if you want a really interesting browser-based solution to rendering UI from XSD, check out XForms. It will take a lot of additional plumbing before major browsers have native implementations, but there are plenty of plugins that can render them today.
Jesse Jacob wrote:
if you want a really interesting browser-based solution to rendering UI from XSD, check out XForms.
Ah, but I'm looking for a WinForm component, not a browser-based component. :) Marc