On 11.Jan.2003 -- 09:38 AM, Ivelin Ivanov wrote: > > > From: "Christian Haul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Oh, I understand. > The Form actually is just a wrapper. It holds to a data model, which can be > JavaBean or DOM. So if you create a Form shell and stick the DOM in question > in it, > then the rest should work fine. Actually, to be precise the DOM should be > wrapped in a DocumentContainer, > so that JXPath can correctly detect its type. Given the form id and the > source for the model in the > sitemap config, creating the wrappers can happen automatically. > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jxpath/users-guide.html#Containers I see. Will look into that. > > > 4) Then, when the browser posts the HTML form, what component will > update > > > the underlying data model (SQL database for example)? > > > > This is optional. XForms can be used for display only. Another > > possibility is to create an XML document from the parameters and store > > just that. > > This is good. JXPath has a feature which is not currently employed by the > XMLFormAction. > If the underlying model is DOM and the option "create nodes if reference not > found" > is turned on (I forgot the exact details), then you can use the > XMLFormAction to do the work > in both cases (fill in vs create doc). Right. Another problem is timing: If I want to create the form from data in the XML, the earliest point of time to create the form is in a transformer while an action is used to build the form. Mmmh, will have to investigate further. Perhaps this is an application for an OutputModule ;-) Chris. -- C h r i s t i a n H a u l [EMAIL PROTECTED] fingerprint: 99B0 1D9D 7919 644A 4837 7D73 FEF9 6856 335A 9E08 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
