Hi,
I've just started to
play with Cocoon and in particular XMLForm. My goal is to create a
template-based editor to generate XML documents following a specific schema. I
figured, I'll use a simple DOM-based model for the XForms, populate it
using a set of forms, then xslt-transform it into the required format, and
either return the result to the user, or upload it to the server. The hope is
that an admin user to only define a few XML documents to create a new
template: the model, the xmlforms, the xslt stylesheet to transform the model
into the correct schema document, and possibly the state-transition graph
to be parsed by my custom Action to define the sequence of steps in a
form...
My first concrete
question is, how do I make the XML document with the data populated via XMLForm
available to the cocoon pipe? Does this approach even make
sense?
Also, where can I
find documentation for DOM-based model? I found some simple tutorial, but how
powerful is this approach? What are the limitations of the kind of data that can
be expressed? Can it, for example, handle repeating elements, and how would
those be expressed?
Probably more
questions to follow :)
Thanks,
-
Eugene
