Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 3:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> But I also want to point out something that I'll need a lot in the > future: the XML datatype in a form. > > I would like to be able to submit an entire XML island into a form > textarea and have the server-side form handler be able to validate it > against a particular schema. But that would be invalid markup. It would be better to use a PUT (I am still using a POST with a hidden INPUT...). We do the XML Schema validation client-side and just send the updated XML back to the server for storage. > > That would be *KILLER* for serious content management solutions where > all the data aggregation from the document can be done via javascript on > the client side directly (and it's pretty dead easy also to make > transparently portable for 6th generation browsers!). I am confused. In the previous paragraph you say you want to submit it to the server for validation. But in the above para you talk about client-side validation? Why not use some schema dialect (XML Schema seems to have achieved critical mass???) and add a form namespace that indicates the widgets. You get datatyping for free. ? -Rob > > This is also why I'm happy to see XMLForm to move into a block: the > XForm-inflicted mindset is too limiting for what I'm going to need in > the future for roundtrippable data. > > Stefano.
