Dmitry Beransky wrote:
> ...
> recognizable tokens (as in '<'.'form'). Unfortunately, I cannot use XML or
> XSLT processing, as you recommend, because the content of the tags often is
> HTML. This brings me to another question. Is (would) it possible to do
> recursive recursive XML processing (similar to XSLT) with ASP? Here's an
> example:
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <xform id="formID">
> ...
> </xform>
> </head>
> <body>
> ...
> <asp:form id="formID">
> First name: <asp:input id="firstName"/>
> Last name: <asp:input id="lastName"/>
> </asp:form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> What I need to do is to process the asp:form element, transform the tag
> itself into appropriate html and then recursively process its content, so
> that I could get to the asp:input tags.
>
If its HTML you need, you could substitute a call to
HTML::Parser instead with a XMLSub <asp:form> to
look for the input tags. You could also do this
all at once at the Script_OnFlush event to parse
both the xform and form at runtime.
If you wanted just a XMLSubsMatch approach, you will have
to work backwards, because inner tags are evaluated
first as sub routines. If you need the input data when you
evaluate the <asp:form>, then you could try using script
globals to capture data for you, like in each input tag
you could set something in $Inputs{$id} = $data and
then reference %Inputs in your <asp:form> ... that's
pretty backwards, and is a limitation with a pure
XMLSubs approach to a problem like this.
Best of luck, and I am very interested in what you
end up with.
-- Joshua
