Model-Based XML Editor Generation

As XML is becoming more widely used, the demand for user-friendly XML editors is increasing. In the perspective of software engineering, the development of user-friendly editors comprises considerable portions of overall development costs. In order to reduce the costs, we introduce how model-based user interface generation techniques are applied to generating form-based XML editors. In our approach, we consider a DTD as a document consisting of sequence, choice, and repetition, and we describe the document in Document Decomposition Graph (DDG). By applying the presentation rules to DDG, we can generate an XML editor automatically. Our approach will reduce the costs for developing the user interfaces for XML applications, and the generated XML editors will help users in writing documents correctly and easily.