Thanks for all the pointers; yes, I forgot invoking remote commands would be a solution for what I was thinking.
Carlos On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 12:13 AM Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> wrote: > On 11/27/24 12:44, Carlos Villegas wrote: > > What I've done is to deploy the xmlmind backend in a separate container > > from our application backend. In fact, it's probably difficult to run > > the xmlmind server embedded in our backend > > Sorry but xxeserver has not been designed to be embedded. xxeserver is > meant to run side by side with your backend. > > > > > > due to dependency conflicts > > and such, even as it happens that our backend is also running in Java. I > > communicate with our backend to do the load/save to our database and > > access to a graphics and other media resources database, just as the > > example in the documentation. > > > > However, in order to support some interactive features I need to update > > the XML tree or add properties from the client side. > > Updating the XML tree or adding properties from the client side, > according to your custom needs, is certainly possible. > > In order to achieve this, you'll always end up invoking remote commands > (https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_web/doc/apidoc/RemoteCommand.html) > which actually do the job on the server side. (Remember that the > document "lives" on the server side.) > > Note that custom remote commands (commands other than insert, convert, > replace, putAttribute, removeAttribute, etc) can be dynamically > discovered and loaded by xxeserver during the startup. In that respect, > all this works exactly like in the desktop app. > > See "How to adapt an existing ".xxe" configuration file to XXEW", > > https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_web/doc/manual/adapt_config_file.html#adapt_config_file_XXEW > --- > Therefore you can very easily make XXEW reuse existing configurations > created for XXE or if you want to create a configuration for XXEW, > simply follow the instructions which apply to XXE, > https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/config_file.html. > --- > > This appendix also applies to custom configurations specifying custom > menus and toolbars and referencing custom commands (macro or written in > Java), like yours. > > > > > > But I don't seem to > > have access in the client to that. So one way to do it, or so I thought, > > without adding more JavaScript APIs is to communicate directly with the > > custom Java extension in the xmlmind backend, which has the access to > > the XML tree. Well, I guess I can just add another endpoint to the > > xmlmind server inside my Java extension! > > Sorry but I don't understand this. There is no way to add "endpoints" to > xxeserver (unless, of course, you have the full source code of the > product and are willing to recompile it after modifying it). > > As explained in my previous email, XMLmind XML Editor Web Edition > supports most CSS stylesheet extensions > (https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/styleext.html) and > also > > - custom commands > (https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/command.html), > - custom Virtual Drives > (https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/vdrive_plugin.html), > > but that's all the extension points you have access to. > > > > > > > Anyway, at this point I don't have the specific use case where I would > > need this. It looks like the current Java extension mechanism even with > > the web edition restrictions > > To our knowledge, for a Western user, XMLmind XML Editor Web Edition has > few restrictions compared to the desktop app. Mainly (1) being a single > document, single view, XML editor and (2) having no support for > transclusions (e.g. xi:include). > > See also "Differences with the desktop application", > > https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_web/doc/manual/presentation.html#presentation__differences_with_desktop_app > > > > > > is sufficient for my application. I'll see > > if it works. > > > Anyway, thank you for this information and my best wishes of the success > for your prototype. > > >
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