Re: [RT] Comparing Woody & XMLForm : towards a unified form handling (long)

[Stefano Mazzocchi]

I have never had the chance (yet) to try any of the form-handing 
mechanisms, but I'm glad that people start talking about convergence. 
Other than this, I don't have much to say.

On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 11:23 America/Guayaquil, Bruno Dumon wrote:

Although there is a great probability that datatypes can
be reused for different fields and even different forms, I'm not sure
using the same fields within different templates really make sense. 
For
example, HTML and WML browsers have so much different screen sizes and
interaction constraints that a single form definition can hardly be 
used
for both.
Agreed. It is however not so much about reuse but rather separation of
skills: the form template will mostly be edited by a HTML designer.
Question: have you thought about using garbage as the template file?

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The ongoing work on form binding considers binding as a process
surrounding form population and validation : the application->form
binding fills an existing form, and the form->application binding
transfers form data to the application model once the form is 
correctly
validated.
And in a flowscript, it's as simple as this (taken from
binding_example.js):
    var document = loadDocument(documentURI);
    var binding = loadBinding(bindingURI);
    var model = form.getModel();
    binding.loadFormFromModel(form.form, document);

    form.show("form2-display-pipeline");

    binding.saveFormToModel(form.form, document);
    saveDocument(document, makeTargetURI(documentURI));
    cocoon.sendPage("form2-success-pipeline");
    form.finish();
I would love to see this commented a little more so that I can 
understand more.

--
Stefano.