[Zope-CMF] Re: A better CMFworkflow - XML configuration

[albert boulanger]

   I've make a quick representation of the DCWorkflow's configuration
   properties in an XML document. When time permits, something like this
   will be the source document from which I'll try an XSLT transform to
   make an SVG workflow diagram. I'm putting it out there early to foster
   the discussion. This is more or less the config info our best workflow
   tool stores today, maybe it will help us to spec out what else we need
   workflow to do going forward.


I have thought of this path, but my hangup has been dyanmically
updating the SVG display from the server if workflow state changes w/o
causing the whole page to refresh. THis is a trick I know which
involves reading from the DOM tree in an invisible frame to do this,
but it seems a bit of a hack and when one wants to author visual
workflow, well, one begins thinking of applets to do so, See for
example this java based workflow display and authoring system:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/endeavors/endeavors.html

Regards,
Albert Boulanger
aboulanger@vpatch.com