Add XML parser

[breznak]

To allow GUI settings instead of editing XML config files.
Related #43 #8

[christian-nils]

Hello,
I have created a MATLAB tool to edit the driving task XML files. You can check it out on https://github.com/christian-nils/opends-DTGen

/CN

[breznak]

Hi Christian,

sorry for the delay, I'm on a vacation. Thank you for getting in touch! 👍 I'm going to test your project. Would it be acceptable for you, if I pull the script into our repo? With All references going to you?
Are you thinking about doing/aware of - a similar project without the (commercial) Matlab requirement? Ideally java

[christian-nils]

Hi,

Well, that would be my dreamed goal. But unfortunately, I started to develop the tool to provide it to my students for their master thesis. I was in a rush for finishing it on time.
I used MATLAB because it is the main language I was using then so it felt natural to use it. (Maybe Octave would run my tool?)
I do not currently plan to port it to a full JAVA-written application.

Conceptually, the tool is really straightforward. There is a GUI where you can create/delete nodes directly in trees. The nodes are checked to be compliant with the Schema xml files. You can save/load the driving task.

The tool has a wide margin for improvements, so please free to fork the project and potentially add some fixes.

Doing some driving behavior research, your project highly interests me, so I'll stay around !

Good luck,

Christian-Nils

[breznak]

I'm considering using XForms for parsing/GUI&editing/storing XML files with given grammar.
I don;t know much about the technology, but it looks promising:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XForms/Comparison_of_XForms_Products
Implementations:
https://github.com/dimagi/Vellum
https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms