On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:34, Andrew Savory wrote: > Hi Bruno, > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Bruno Dumon wrote: > > > It should be possible to create a form just by describing its structure > > in an XML file (lets call this a "form description"). I don't like the > > fact that for XMLForm/Struts the user needs to write a bean just to hold > > the form data. Apparently the struts people are realizing this and have > > introduced something like 'DynaFormBeans' for this purpose. XMLForm > > allows to use any DOM document as data-structure, but a DOM document can > > only hold strings, and not dates or numbers. > > Interesting. We've been thinking long and hard recently about whether or > not it's possible to dynamically generate a form (or wizard-style set of > forms) from a given Schema.
Schema with a capital S: are you talking about W3C XML Schemas? > This is basically because we're getting lots > of requests to build "ingestion interfaces" that allow people to add > content to a database based on a given metadata standard (which is > provided as a schema). I think there's a lot of crossover between our > schema-based forms plan and your RT. Yep, though I think that what you'd like to have layers on top of the form framework: it could be possible to generate form descriptions from the schema information, but not all forms are always automatically generated from a schema. -- Bruno Dumon http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
