Here's the general approach you want to take.
What you want to do is to hand your editor a LzDataElement that is cloned
from the template. Note that this node doesn't need to be part of a
dataset; you can hand an xml node directly to a datapath that you've
declared
<class name="editor" extends="window">
<!-- be sure to create a datapath, since we're not going to use xpath
for databinding here -->
<datapath/>
var newnode = template.getFirstChild().getFirstChild().cloneNode( true );
editor.datapath.setPointer( newnode );
//user fills out form
....
//when user clicks ok
editor.datapath.updateData();
ds1.getFirstChild().appendChild( editor.datapath.p );
Hope this helps.
A
On Apr 11, James Howe wrote:
> I've been working on a data related problem for the last few days which
> really has me confused. I must be missing something. I'm trying to do
> something very simple. I have two XML datasets:
>
> <dataset name="ds1">
> <items>
> <item name="foo" address="bar"/>
> </items>
> </dataset>
>
> <dataset name="template">
> <items>
> <item name="" address=""/>
> </item>
> </dataset>
>
> I have a simple editor which is bound to ds1 with a datapath like this:
>
> datapath="ds1:/items/item"
>
> The user can change things in the editor and save them. They can also
> select 'New' to start again. What I've been trying to figure out is how
> to clone the item element from my template dataset and use it to replace
> the edited value found in ds1. Looking in the documentation I can see how
> I could add the template item to ds1 and then delete the original node
> from ds1 using the addNodeFromPointer, but then if the user edits the
> values, the values in my template are disturbed. What I want to do is add
> a deep clone of my template node to the ds1 dataset so that if/when it
> gets edited, my template remains unaffected.
>
> What am I missing? I can find the node I'm interested in by doing
> xpathQueries. I can clone the LzDataElement returned from the
> xpathQuery. Once I have that, I don't see how I can add that element as a
> node in my ds1 dataset.
>
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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