announce : innovation Partners and CEI announce IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR beta 1

Sun May 3 14:55:17 BST 1998

innovation Partners and CEI announce IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR beta 1

The first release (beta 1) of IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR is now available
for download. This first 
beta version can open or create DTD for XML applications. The user can
edit the DTD with a text 
view (like if you edit it in the Windows Notepad), or in a logical view.
Both the text and 
logical view provide tools to insert ELEMENTS, ATTRIBUTES, COMMENTS, OR
ENTITIES. In logical view 
you can also modify ***very easily*** ELEMENTS, ATTRIBUTES, ENTITIES,
and COMMENTS. This software 
is design for user that don't know (and don't want to know) XML
standards details.

You can download the IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR from the following URL.

http://www.cabinfo.com/download.htm

All comments, bugs reports, functionnalities wishes are welcome at
alain at cabinfo.com

Well known in FRANCE for his HTML EDITOR ODYSSEE ( see
http://www.mondial-telecom.com/odyssee ), 
Innovation Partners has start to think about XML many months ago. This
thought tell us to develop 
3 XML software. The first one, IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR, is a tool for
building XML DTDs. The second 
is IRIS XML EDITOR for editing XML files. And the third one is a XSL
stylesheet EDITOR for 
presenting and processing XML files. These 3 softwares can naturally
work together, building a complete 
sofware suite for XML editing. For limitations, supported
functionnalities, and bugs of beta 
versions, please see the readme file of the downloaded software. Now
lets have a look to the 
DTD functionnalities. 

IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR

- Editing existing DTDs
- Creating DTDs
- Logical and Text view mode for editing DTDs
- Wizzard for creating ELEMENTS both in text an logical view
- Wizzard for creating ATTRIBUTES both in text an logical view
- Wizzard for creating ENTITIES both in text an logical view
- Wizzard for creating COMMENTS both in text an logical view
- Support of additionnals informations for IRIS XML EDITOR (saved as
comment in the DTD)
- Generation of XML DATA schemas
- Find an replace both in logical and text view
- Wizzard for creating xml standard attributes (like xml:lang for
example)
- support of XLL linking attributes
- Glossaries
- Printing a DTD
- multi language software (currently French and English only - You can
change the language in the file menu)
- Automatic save capabilities
- backup on save capabilities
- MDI environment

NOTE : All of these functionnalities are not implemented in the beta 1
release. This list describe 
what the software can be for the version 1.00 release. Some of these
functionnalities will perharps 
disappear for the final release.

IRIS XML EDITOR

- Creating XML files according to a DTD generated by IRIS XML DTD
GENERATOR, or generated by something else.
- Project notion for managing XML file collections (like in the ODYSSEE
HTML EDITOR).
- glossaries
- Dynamic toolbars with generated icons that can insert ELEMENTS,
ATTRIBUTES, or ENTITIES you define in your DTD
- Dynamic Wizzard generated automaticly for ELEMENTS with attributes,
that ask user for informations.
- Text view for editing XML files
- Hierachical view for for editing the XML file (the tree object flow
view)
- Visualisation view for seeing the rendering of the XML file :
	- If an XSL file is specified in your XML document these one is use to
generate the 
	visualisation view.
	- if none is provide, a minimal built in style sheet is use to render
your document.
- Automatic save capabilities
- backup on save capabilities
- XML document printing
- XML Visualisation view printing
- FTP publication of XML files
- Specific Wizzard adding capabilities through an Standardize DLL API
(like in ODYSSEE HTML EDITOR)	
- Friend application capabilities
- multi language software (currently French and English only - You can
change the language in the file menu)
- Find an replace both in tree and text view
- Insertion of XML Standard Attributes (like xml:lang)

NOTE : All of these functionnalities are not implemented in the beta 1
release. This list describe 
what the software can be for the version 1.00 release. Some of these
functionnalities will perharps 
disappear for the final release.

IRIS XSL STYLER

- Creating XSL stylesheet 
- full support of XSL proposal and future ones.
- glossaries
- Text view for editing XSL files
- Hierachical view for for editing the XSL rules 
- Import a DTD to re-use its elements, attributes, etc. in the style
sheet
- Visualisation view for seeing the rendering produce with the XSL file
:
	- You can provide your own XML file to see the rendering.
	- if none is provide, a minimal built in XML file based on the
target-elements is used.
- Automatic save capabilities
- backup on save capabilities
- XSL document printing
- XSL Visualisation view printing
- Specific Wizzard adding capabilities through an Standardize DLL API
(like in ODYSSEE HTML EDITOR)	
- Friend application capabilities
- multi language software (currently French and English only - You can
change the language in the file menu)
- Find an replace both in tree and text view

NOTE : All of these functionnalities are not implemented in the beta 1
release. This list describe 
what the software can be for the version 1.00 release. Some of these
functionnalities will perharps 
disappear for the final release.

Currently, only the IRIS XML DTD GENERATOR beta 1 is available. IRIS XML
EDITOR beta 1 will be available 
in May, and IRIS XSL STYLER beta 1 will be available in June. All theses
software are commercial, so 
they are copyright. The beta version of these software are freely usable
for evaluation purpose, 
bugs report, and functionnality discussions. Once the final release
(Version 1.00) launch up, you 
***MUST*** register the software if you want to use it. 

For Bugs reports, Functionnalities discussion, technical questions, XML
and XSL discussion, you 
can use the DTD GENERATOR mailling list, for details about the mailling
list, please see the readme 
file include in the beta 1 distribution. You can download the Beta 1
distribution of IRIS XML 
DTD GENERATOR at :

http://www.cabinfo.com/download.htm

Paris the 20/04/1998

Alain DESEINE, Technical contact.

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Innovation Partners

Commercial contact : M. Emmanuel CHAMBON     innovationpartners at hol.fr
Technical contact  : M. Alain DESEINE        alain at cabinfo.com

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http://www.cabinfo.com

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