Re: more xmlforms + schematron, why ?

[Christopher Oliver]

It may not help you at the moment because its still under development, 
but with the current XMLForm integration with the Cocoon flow layer, you 
can also do validation in JavaScript, meaning you have regular 
expressions, String operations, etc, the full power of JavaScript and 
Java, if you need it.

Thanks to somebody (not sure who), the XMLForm samples now seem to be 
working, so you can now play with the XMLForm FeedBack Wizard driven by 
the flow layer:

http://localhost:8888/samples/xmlform/overview.html

Regards,

Chris

Guido Casper wrote:
I agree, that the lack of support for regular expressions is the biggest
obstacle to schematron use.
I wonder if anybody is already working on a second validator for XMLForm
with support for regular expressions.
Guido

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeroen Cranendonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:50 PM
Subject: more xmlforms + schematron, why ?


Looking at xmlforms and schematron more closely, I'm starting to
wonder why this combination was chosen anyways? from the examples
it seems the purpose of schematrons is to validate input fields, but
checking

something simple as if a field is only alpha characters seems to be near
impossible or atleast really hard with schematron (or am I missing
something

here ? )
Isn't schematron intended for checking document structure, not validity of
single fields/elements ?
Could someone eleborate on this ? please ? :)
and if anyone does have a simple idea of how to do a simple check with
schematron for alpha or non alpha strings ( 'test' is good, 'test1' or
'test#' is bad ) I'd be very gratefull for that too :)
Many thanks in advance,
Jeroen Cranendonk