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> I think that's pretty common. Not as common as you might think. It is a hard thing to search for, and the ones I have been able to find all suck. I wrote a
by deepspace 4y ago
> I think that's pretty common.
Not as common as you might think. It is a hard thing to search for, and the ones I have been able to find all suck.
I wrote a PHP application a long time that allowed you to create a GUI for an 'arbitrary' SQL database table, using an XML schema to configure the appearance, validation etc. of the fields. Life got in the way, and I stopped development before it was ready for prime time. Fifteen years later, I went looking for something with similar functionality and was surprised at how few options there still were.
- masfuerte 4y agoA bit more than 20 years ago Microsoft released a desktop product that automated producing a CRUD interface from an XML schema. It looked very nice but it was immediately withdrawn. I was puzzled at the time but I guess now they were threatened with a patent. This might explain why there weren't more products solving this obvious problem. Patents should have expired by now though.