Re: [xsl] schema -> HTML Forms

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 05:40  AM, Jeni Tennison wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> > I'm looking at using a schema to generate an HTML form that a user can
> > fill in. This is to save them from having to edit the XML directly. 
> > I'd
> > like to do this using XSLT, and looking at it, it seems like a pretty
> > common thing for people to want to do. So, there must be some code
> > floating around that does this but I can't find it. Please help?
>
> I wrote a stylesheet to do this for Chapter 10 of "Professional XML
> Schemas" from Wrox Press. The code is online at the Wrox website at
> http://web.wrox.com/professional/5474.zip, though the book contains
> the documentation for the stylesheet.

Thanks Jeni. I'm using an RNG (relax ng) schema so I think I'll try to 
roll my own and keep yours as a backup in case I get stuck.

I guess an issue I'm going to hit eventually is dealing with situations 
where a schema allows zeroOrMore or oneOrMore (to use rng terms) of a 
set of items ... if the user wants to add more than I provided on the 
forms there's going to have to be some feedback back and forth.

Also I notice that you seem to be using javascript for validation .. 
that's cool.

Overall though, your code looks at first glance like it's very 
procedural rather than functional/declarative. Was that a matter of 
style or did you find that to be necessary in this instance?

simon

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