Editing XML files using web forms, outside web projects

[spatil]

Is it possible to use web forms to edit XML files that are not part of any web projects. These are XML files located in a regular ECM space.

The intention is to have better editing capability for XML files, than just the text-like editor provided for inline editing of XML files.

So an XSD file would be associated with the XML file and the XForms will be used to capture and persist instance data into the XML file (initial data population and editing too), along with validation based on the XSD file.

[kvc]

Currently our XForms implementation is bound to Alfresco WCM (and correspondingly web projects).

We do intend to separate out the dependency on XML authoring from WCM, but this will not be investigated for potential fix until our 3.0 release (end 2007 to early 2008).

If you could provide more details on what you are looking to accomplish, and what limitations you are trying to overcome, there may be additional ways we can address this issue, and perhaps even earlier than a 3.0 release.

Kevin