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

Atanas Karashenski <[email protected]>
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For the 'mapping' of form fields to XML document you can use the
following module. As a result of HTML form processing it returns a DOM
object. Note that it allows you to have xml element with as many as you
want children stored in a single html form - it is very useful when you
have to 'move' some data through several web pages.

Tthe module requires CGI.pm module and XML::LibXML libraries only. You
can put it wherever you want and to rename it according to your needs. I
have plans to upload it to CPAN ... some day.

http://www.blueboard.biz/cdir/blueboard.biz/files/XMLForm.pm

I hope it will help

Atanas Karashenski
BlueBoard LLC

Tod Harter wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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.
>
>     --
>     Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
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