Project XEditor ( XMLEditor/Viewer )

since 2003-08-29

That tutorial project shows how to grow a application from simple to complex.   Under JDK1.4.1, JBuilder 8.0 and JBuilder 9.0. Tested both in WindowsXP and Redhat 9.0

Steps	New Features	Libaray	New class/Package Used	Notes	Lines
0.0.1 (2003-08-29)	Read and write XML file with Crimson	Crimson	javax.xml.parsers org.w3c.dom,	1- Using DOM to read a XML file and write the contents into another XML file. 2- No GUI, info is printed to console 3- Can only read one kind of XML file : student	195
0.0.2 (2003-09-14)	Show the XML file in a Tree	Crimson	swing: JFrame , JScrollPane javax.swing.tree My packages: isu.indus.xml;	1- Show the XML document in a Tree GUI	109
0.0.3 (2003-09-15)	Show arbitrary XML in a Tree (the XML with attribute)	Crimson	dom: NamedNodeMap , NodeList , Node	1 - Concise code: writing XML file and StudentBean is ommited. readXMLFile() also calls to create the Jtree 2- Iterate the DOM tree to generate Jtree by recursion 3- blank text is trimmed 4- Handle attribute and subnode respectively	212
0.0.4 (2003-09-19)	- JavaDoc - Handle menu and button msg - Changable icon for tree node - File Open Dialog - Set node apperance - Utility package	Crimson	my package isu.indus.util swing: JFileChooser , FileFilter, DefaultTreeModel , JMenuBar, JMenu, JCheckBox, JLabel, ButtonGroup ,JRadioButton, ChangeListener, ActionListener, JOptionPane	1- JavaDoc are used to generate documents 2- UML diagrams are also generated (see each class' doc)	529
0.0.5 (2003-09-23)	- Using JAXP - XML source is shown in test area and is editable - File_New and File_Save - Splitted Panels	JAXP	swing: JButton , JDialog , JSplitPane , JTextArea , LayoutManager , io: FileReader , Reader	1- Change: isu.indus.util.DefaultTreeModelEx is deleted 2- XMLViewer is renamed as XmlEditor and moved to root package 3- TreeCellRendererEx moved to root package 4- isu.indus.xml.XTree is intraduced as a JTree for XML Doc	834
0.0.6 (2003-10-04)	I rewrite jsXe, incorprate it into my program. XML parser is changed. - Tabbed View - Editing in the Tree and source view - Attribution editing - Clipboard - XML serialization	Xerces	JDK packages: swing: ActionEvent ,  JDialog ,  JSeparator ,  JPanel , BorderFactory, Border, DocumentListener, TableModelListener, TreeModelListener, BorderLayout, FlowLayout , GridLayout , ActionEvent, MouseLisenter , ChangeListener , DocumentEvent , TreeModel Event , TreeSelectionModel ,  TreeSelectionListener , TableModel , Document, DefaultStyledDocument, TreePath, ImageIcon swing.text.*:   awt: ToolKit , Window , KeyStroke, util: HasTable, Enumeration org.apache.xerces.dom3 org.xml.sax My packages:  - edu.isu.indus.action  - edu.isu.indus.gui  - edu.isu.indus.gui.view  - edu.isu.indus.gui.dlg  - edu.isu.indus.xml upgraded	1- The software has a MainFrame as tabbed view, with ChildFrames inside it. Each ChildFrame has its treeedtior and source editor. 2- package edu.isu.indus.xml can be reused as xml document parser/ serializer / viewer 3- action package stores menu action used in MainFrame	3618

Todo List:

1 - use different icons for nodes

Todebug list


1- ChildFrame:  Attribution editing, exception,  source area doesn't update.

Refer to other open source XML Editor projects in Java:

		My Comments
	jsXe is the Java Simple XML Editor.
	XML tree viewer component: Universal java component to display content and structure of the XML document.
	TXE - : TXE is GUI XML editor written in Java using the DOM (Document Object Model) parser provided by Oracle.
	Xerlin project : Opensource Extensible XML Modeling Application
NONE	XAmple - Java XML Editor of a new kind
	Jaxe is a Java XML editor. Features include: graphical document-oriented user interface (not just tree-like), customizable user interface for a given document type, validation at edition time, HTML preview with an XSL stylesheet
	Pollo is an XML editor best suited to edit tree-like XML files.
	jEdit - Open Source programmer's text editor
	TAXI is a new generation of editors for your XML documents. With TAXI you don't work with the structure of your document but with a graphical representation of it.
	eXchaNGeR XML browser and Editor is an open source browser and editor framework, written in Java, that visualizes elements in a XML document.
	GenDoc is a XML Editor written in Java2. It is based on a existing project (MerlotXML), and can use two kinds of plugins (DTD and/or action).