----- Original Message ----- From: "Konstantin Piroumian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [Announcement] XMLForm 0.81 available in Scratchpad
> Great news, Ivelin! > > > > > +=============================================================+ > > [|] Cocoon's new form handling solution just got more robust [|] > > +-------------------------------------------------------------+ > > [|] with the addition of two new tags - group and repeat. [|] > > +=============================================================+ > > What tags else are supported? form output textbox textarea password selectone selectboolean group repeat Most were implemented by Torsten. > > > > > > > The syntax and semantics for these tags was borrowed from the XForms spec. > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice9.html#ui-group > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice9.html#ui-repeat > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xforms-20020118/sliceE.html > > > > I would like to note that <repeat/> is a very powerful iterating tag, > since > > it unrolls over a nodeset resulting from its xpath selector. Flat > > collections is the simplest type of things it can iterate over. > > See the XForms repeat tag documentation to learn what you can do with it > and > > remember that since the underlying Form model can be a DOM node as well as > a > > JavaBean or even both mixed together, the data structures which can be > > addressed and enumerated can be quite unconventional. > > > > The XMLForm demo in Cocoon Scratchpad was updated to show the use of group > > and repeat. > > > > When you build the latest cocoon snapshot with scratchpad, > > point your browsers to > > > > http://localhost:8080/cocoon/mount/xmlform/wizard.html > > If you add this to your xmlform/sitemap.xmap then your sample will be more > user friendly ;) : > > <map:match pattern=""> > <map:redirect-to uri="cocoon:/wizard.html"/> > </map:match> > > > > > > > This addition mostly concludes my mission of implementing a server-side > > XForms subset natively integrated in Cocoon. > > I am very interested to see where did you get with it. > > > > > From here on, I will be looking for more feedback, suggestions for > > improvement, performance enhancements, patches and very crital - user > > documentation. > > The code has relatively detailed javadoc, but any assistance with a HOWTO > > document will be appreciated. > > > > Hopefully XMLForm can make it in the Cocoon 2.1 core distro if it gathers > > enough votes. > > I am +1 for it. > > Expect more comments from me soon! > > -- > Konstantin > > > > > > > Best wishes to all, > > > > > > Ivelin > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
