On Tue, Jul 31, 2001, Birgit Kellner wrote:
> --On Dienstag, 31. Juli 2001 08:13 -0400 "Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the information. If it is indeed necessary to have unique
> fields, I reckon I could just use the database key as a name of the input
> field for the number of copies:
> <input type=text size=3 maxlength=3 name="$db_key">
>
> For all I can tell, this works. Any ideas for further simplification?
I would think it's a perfect thingy for XML :-)
HTML forms are so bad for multi-valued fields !
you have to build a string like with your 'form'
<boolist>
<book>
<isbn>1</isbn>
<author>Stephenson</author>
<title>Treasure island</title>
<price>12</price>
</book>
<book>
<isbn>2</isbn>
<author>Dickens</author>
<title>Oliver Twist</title>
<price>10</price>
</book>
</booklist>
and then parse it :-) but I'm not proficient with the XML parser
<http://search.cpan.org/doc/MSERGEANT/AxKit-1.4/XML-Parser-2.30/Parser.pm>
but it would generate a tree easy to access for further processing.
Only drawback I see imeediately is the need for the browser to do some
processing (but quite simple) in some script langage to build the string.
--
Damien
You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.
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