XML in Action

March 1998 / Cover Story / Weaving a Better Web / XML in Action

IBM's TaskGuide technology lets technical writers and user-interface developers generate "wizards" -- task-oriented dialogs that guide the user, automating the task -- without writing code. The XML-based system includes the option to create a recursive document, a wizard that builds another wizard. The following sample script defines a list of TV programs to be record ed; it generates the panel shown here .

<sguide> <title>Editlist Example</title> <panel name=programs next=done no-image> <p>Here's a sample editlist:</p> <editlist name=programs type="progName(key), channel (format=integer),start, end, speed" headers="Program Name,Channel, Start Time,End Time, Tape Speed" add=addProgram edit=editProgram delete=deleteProgram separator=^A ordered init="SportsCenter^A31^A11:00pm^ A12:00am^ALP^ASeinfeld^A6^ A9:00pm^A 9:30pm^ALP^A" >Your Favorite Programs </editlist> </panel> ... </sguide>

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