Re: Suggestions for a tool or method to create an editable XML-based form.

Hmmm, well, I have done a bunch of these sorts of things. You can do a few
things. Write an XSLT stylesheet to translate the invoice into a form, that
gets you your UI for entering/editing stuff. Going the other way you could
pretty easily write a 'mapping' which provides a form field name to XPATH
expression mapping in order to stuff things back in (coding that is pretty
simple).

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Robin Berjon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mar 9, 2009, at 23:18 , Howard, Chris wrote:
> > But, I have this nagging feeling that there must be some simpler
> > tool for doing this, particularly the tricky bits of saving
> > state between calls to CGI.pm.
>
> Sideways question: does it have to run in a browser, and any browser
> at that? What you describe sounds a lot like XForms. There's a Firefox
> extension for it (and a bunch of plugins or server transcoders).
>
> >  Maybe I should be writing this
> > in Java or something.
>
> That's never the solution.
>
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