Re: CForms -Bind to 2 Separate Sources -Solved
Thanks for your help, its working now. I used Jorg's bean method to partially prepopulate a form with data from an XML file and save the data from the completed form to XMLDB Regards Peter Sparkes Hi, Help please I wish to bind to a XML file to generate a form and then send the data in the completed form to a database without updating the original XML file. I can't work out how to extract the data from the completed form so that I can update the database. Mark Lundquist wrote: I'm not quite sure I get the idea... is it to prepopulate a form from XML data? If so, here's how I would go about it: // Parse the XML into a bean. This bean is really a kind of Data Transfer Object (DTO). // . // . // . // then: // form.load (theBean); form.showForm (whatever); form.save (theBean); // // Finally, pass the bean to your model layer which updates the database. Jorg Heymans wrote: Have a look at [1], more specifically the direction attribute. In your binding, you can specify where the data should be loaded from and where the data should be saved to. So you load from your XML and you save to a different bean that you then persist. Should be fairly straightforward I believe. Your question wasn't that clear though, hope i understood you right. HTH Jorg [1] http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/forms/binding.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CForms -Bind to 2 Separate Sources
Hi, Help please I wish to bind to a XML file to generate a form and then send the data in the completed form to a database without updating the original XML file. I can't work out how to extract the data from the completed form so that I can update the database. Thanks Peter Sparkes - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CForms -Bind to 2 Separate Sources
Hi Peter, On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:19 AM, Peter Sparkes wrote: Hi, Help please I wish to bind to a XML file to generate a form and then send the data in the completed form to a database without updating the original XML file. I can't work out how to extract the data from the completed form so that I can update the database. I'm not quite sure I get the idea... is it to prepopulate a form from XML data? If so, here's how I would go about it: // Parse the XML into a bean. This bean is really a kind of Data Transfer Object (DTO). // . // . // . // then: // form.load (theBean); form.showForm (whatever); form.save (theBean); // // Finally, pass the bean to your model layer which updates the database. HTH, ml - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CForms -Bind to 2 Separate Sources
Have a look at [1], more specifically the direction attribute. In your binding, you can specify where the data should be loaded from and where the data should be saved to. So you load from your XML and you save to a different bean that you then persist. Should be fairly straightforward I believe. Your question wasn't that clear though, hope i understood you right. HTH Jorg [1] http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/forms/binding.html Peter Sparkes wrote: Hi, Help please I wish to bind to a XML file to generate a form and then send the data in the completed form to a database without updating the original XML file. I can't work out how to extract the data from the completed form so that I can update the database. Thanks Peter Sparkes - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
