Subject: Re: SGML and Forms From: "Martin Bryan" <mtbryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 09:42:26 -0000 |
The real question with forms is not how you should present them but how you can pass information captured using them to applications. At present niether DSSSL or XSL address this problem. With XSL you can convert to HTML and then rely on HTML's use of CGI to send messages to the message processor, but this is not a good enough general purpose mechanism. What is desparately needed is a mechanism whereby users can invoke both local and remote processes from a) a change to a field value (e.g. validate the contents of this field as a part number against a specified database) b) the relationship between field values (e.g. does this field contain the right cost for an item whose part number is shown in field1 and whose quantity is shown in field2) c) the completion of a segment of a form (e.g. when this field is completed send all the fields in this section for processing) d) the formal submission of a signed form for subsequent processing (e.g. compute digital signature, store in local repository, send to legal notary and, once these operations have been acknowledged as successfully completed, submit entered contents to organization who issued the form). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Bryan, 29 Oldbury Orchard, Churchdown, Glos GL3 2PU, UK Phone/Fax: +44 1452 714029 E-mail: mtbryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx For more information about The SGML Centre contact http://www.sgml.u-net.com For more information about the European Commission's Open Information Interchange (OII) initiative contact http://www.echo.lu/oii/en/oiistand.html DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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