I'm writing an application that presents a high level UI to the users in a browser, but under the covers it is building/editing/modifying an XML document which keeps track of all the things the user wants to do.
Any advice on the best way to implement this?
I figured on storing a DOM instance in the users session, and then using flowscript to control the app flow and to edit the XML DOM structure in the session as each user request comes in. When the user has completed the workflow, I would serialize the DOM instance out into a database for storage.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
That's exactly the purpose of my current project: edit complex XML documents stored in BLOBs, and provide an advanced GUI that totally hides the fact that it's an XML file.
The document is loaded in a flowscript global variable (i.e. tied to the session), and lots of woody forms modify their respective parts of this document. When finished, the user clicks a save button and the document is stored in database.
Sylvain
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