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.
It would be better to use WebDAV directly, but this isn't a perfect world.
yes, i was thinking about a POST with a hidden textarea or input.
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?
No, about "client side construction". And even if you do validation on the client side, you still have to do it on the server side to avoid security holes.
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.
I don't get it. can you elaborate more?
Stefano.
