XTiger XML editing with AXEL demos

By Stéphane Sire

This page shows some examples of editing applications created with XTiger XML document templates. Each link opens a document template which is turned into an XML editor with AXEL Javascript code. In some cases, the document is also loaded with XML data coming from an external file. You can edit it, then using the menu bar, you can dump the current target XML content. The save button works only in case the demos are run from a WebDAV server (which is not the case if you are seeing this page from media.epfl.ch).

AXEL is beeing developped with Firefox. We do our best efforts to test it on Safari, Internet Explorer (versions 8) and Opera. The library is still under development and not all templates work on all browsers.

It seems you are using Internet Explorer. Consequently the page has been changed on the fly to alter all the links to XHTML documents into links to HTML documents served with the text/html MIME-Type (hopefully IE supports XHTML 1.0 in HTML compatiblity mode). This is necessary because Internet Explorer does not recognize the XHTML application/xhtml+xml MIME-Type (it is not compliant with W3C Web standards). These demonstrations will only work if the Web administrator has made some copies of all the XHTML files to HTML files after installation.

It seems you are using Internet Explorer and you have loaded these demos from the local file system. For unknown reasons in these conditions Internet Explorer will refuse to launch the demos, it will do it only if they are launched from a Web Server. If you know a fix please let us know.

Available documents:

Each of these templates generates a different XML content model. You may read the XTiger XML Language specification if you want to learn how to create templates for your own XML content model. 

Contact me for any question.


AXEL and XTiger XML are the results of research efforts at the MEDIA research group at EPFL and in collaboration with project WAM at INRIA, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor and Useful Web Sàrl.

Last update: April 21, 2010