PerForm, yes, allows you to XML-ify a form, but it handles the validation, submission and error-handling of the form for you. You need to use XSLT or XPS to format the PerForm-generated XML as HTML forms (the xsl and xps files included with the distribution should do fine for that), and then create Perl "callback" functions that handle validation and "saving" of the form data.
The AxKit::XSP::PerForm man page [1] is a good resource for learning how to use the different tags. I also wrote a document (Fun with ESQL [2], which is still in semi-draft form) that shows how to combine the ESQL taglib with other taglibs, one of which is PerForm.
Good luck with PerForm. It's really a great taglib once you wrap your brain around it's design pattern. I use it every day on the Intranet app I'm building.
1: http://search.cpan.org/author/MSERGEANT/AxKit-XSP-PerForm-1.7/PerForm.pm
2: http://nachbaur.com/software/writing/Fun_with_ESQL.xhtml
On Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003, at 11:19 US/Pacific, Anderson Nathan (air1npa) wrote:
Greetings. Noob here, and trying to wrap my brain around PerForm.
All PerForm does is XML-ify the form, right? I still need to format it with
XSLT or XPathScript, right? I just found AxKit recently, and am still
trying to work through lots of background info.
Nathan Anderson
Automation Systems Group
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