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Hi,

I am not aware of any bibliographic-specific editing tools that would
allow you to edit records in a nice form-based way and then store in a
database.  There are tools that would allow you to create those types of
editors (Cocoon's XForms implementation (Woody) or Chiba's XForms
implementation), but none that I know of that are ready out-of-the-box
for bibliographic records.

We did have a student worker create a form-based editor for
bibliographic records about two years ago.  I'd be glad to send you the
code for that, but no one has looked at it for awhile so I'm not sure
how much work it would be to get it installed and working.  If you are
interested, though, just let me know.

This is not what you were asking, I know, but since they are just plain
XML records you could use any generic XML editor.  There are a bunch of
those at xmlsoftware.com.  Some are form-based but I believe you'd still
have to write the stylesheets to describe how you want them displayed.

Kevin


On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 21:05, Amir Parsi Esfahani wrote:
> Dear list
>   The idea of putting bibliographic records as XMLs in native
> databases is good. But I'm wondering how a user can edit
> a given record in a user friendly environment. Is there any tool for
> it. 
>   Assume someone is going to create a new bibliographic record and
> save it in xml form in a database. I am looking for some tools that
> could be used for user interface, a wise html Form, or something like
> this. Can anyone help?
>  
> Regards
> Amir Parsi Esfahani
> pa...@ir...
> par...@ya...

Dear list
  The idea of putting bibliographic records as XMLs in native databases is
good. But I'm wondering how a user can edit a given record in a user
friendly environment. Is there any tool for it.
  Assume someone is going to create a new bibliographic record and save it
in xml form in a database. I am looking for some tools that could be used
for user interface, a wise html Form, or something like this. Can anyone
help?

Regards
Amir Parsi Esfahani
pa...@ir...
par...@ya...

Hi,

I thought I should post since we are getting a few visits to the page (I
would assume from people who have read about XMLMARC in the new "XML in
Libraries" book). Since the chapter was written we have refactored the
XMLMARC code so that it now expects documents validated by a MARCUTL
Relax NG schema (rather than the older MARCUTL DTD).  In the process, we
have also updated the MARC handling library (now called MedMARC).

Unfortunately, in the process, we lost the graphical interface (we
learned that the Swing GUI library is not GPL compliant -- and we want
to be) and much of our documentation now needs to be rewritten.  We are
nearing a release for this new refactored version of XMLMARC (with a
greatly improved MARCUTL schema but minus a lot of documentation) and
expect it to be ready by the weekend.  We also decided to roll back the
version numbering to 1.9.0 to better reflect its developmental status.

Anyway, thanks for your patience and interest in XMLMARC.  We will, of
course, announce here when we put a version of the software up for
download from the new XMLMARC site.

Kevin

-- 
Kevin S. Clarke (ksc...@st...)
Digital Information Systems Developer
Lane Medical Library, Stanford University

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