A Web-Based XML Editor

Many businesses and developers use XML to deliver formatted contents from a wide variety of applications to the desktop and over the web. The need for extensive knowledge and technical skills to creating such XML based applications and websites, raised a need for XML supporting software tools, which facilitate faster development of these applications. Many standalone commercially available tools are used for designing, building and deploying such applications. Consider a company mostly relying on XML for its information display through its website, going through all the process of XML DTD and Schema development, validation and publication. The developers developing these documents, on standalone XML-editors, need to take extra precaution in validating such document using parsers with their DTD or Schema and then loading them to website for display. What if all the steps involved in XML, DTD and schema document design, validation and display could be automated? The web-based XML editor presented in this paper is an attempt to automate and expedite these steps and providing development ease even to XML-unaware users.