& XSLT Well, it COULD be possible, under certain conditions. Not every DTD 
contains enough information to create a form. Some DTDs only specify 
that elements or attributes COULD exist, or that they could exist in 
variable quantities.

I built a set of modules a good while back that would let you create a 
'mapping' file, essentially a set of pairs of XPATH statements and XSD 
simple data type declarations which describes the equivalence between 
values in one XML and another. Other parts of the system built a simple 
XML representation of a POST/GET, and another managed the whole binding 
and translation. The result is a web based tool that can insert form 
data into a fairly arbitrary XML target document, and also extract XML 
from the document and use an XSLT stylesheet to insert values into 
(X)HTML and thus round trip back and forth to a form. Still its not all 
that 'automatic', you have to build the mapping file, and build the form 
by hand.

A further step would be building the form automagically from a DTD, but 
as I said before, you would have to make a bunch of assumptions about 
your DTD and target document (mainly that each thing you want to edit is 
a unique element of the target document). I'd say its possible within 
limits and it would be a fairly nice tool. If I had the time I'd build 
something myself. If you want I can gift you with some code. Its 
certainly not 'CPAN quality' code, but it might be somewhat helpful ;).

johns@[...].com wrote:
>  hi
> 
>  ( 06.06.15 06:58 -0700 ) Joshua Santelli:
>    
> > There is a demand for a GUI to edit each of
> > these configuration files from the web.
> >     
> 
>  ouch!
> 
>    
> > The ideal solution would be to create a DTD (or
> > schema) and have some code that would generate a web
> > form from that DTD.
> >     
> 
>  um, why wouldn't you send the XML of the config file. the DTD is only a
>  template used to validate the 'well-formed-ness' of various XML files.
> 
>    
> > Does anyone know of anything out that that does
> > something like this?
> >     
> 
>  javascript can take the input XML and output HTML to the browser. it
>  means using the DOM alot, which you may or may not be able to do.
> 
>    

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