Re: Woody textareas?
Nathaniel Alfred wrote: -Original Message- From: Simon Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 30. Juni 2003 20:04 ... Cocoon's form handling is (imho) it's weakest area at present although it is rapidly improving with the interplay between flow and xmlform. ... Simon Luke Penca wrote: Are textareas implemented in Woody yet? I cannot find anything in the (oh so sparse) documentation. Furthermore, has anyone used Woody extensively yet? (I know, I know, it's alpha at this point but I need some serious forms handling.) Should I be considering Xforms instead? Who got some experience getting their hands bloodied with forms in Cocoon? I'm ever anxious to find out. ... Luke. I've just started prototyping with Woody and I think it is a diamond in the raw. Finally a form handling package that does not require you to write a bean class or Cocoon action for every little form! I think it can even get better: just made a posting on cocoon-dev on how we could have it working for binding to a bean class as well :-) Coming to the original question: There is no special textarea widget but you can emulate it easily by a field widget with styling: wt:widget id=question xhtml:textarea rows=5 cols=30 wrap=physical/ /wt:widget yep. which is then transformed into HTML as: xsl:template match=wi:field[wi:styling/xhtml:textarea] xhtml:textarea name=[EMAIL PROTECTED] xsl:apply-templates select=wi:styling/xhtml:textarea/@*/ xsl:choose xsl:when test=wi:value != '' xsl:value-of select=wi:value/ /xsl:when xsl:otherwise xsl:value-of select='#160;'/ /xsl:otherwise /xsl:choose /xhtml:textarea /xsl:template HTH, ALfred. nice angle of attack, (you might want to add a call-template to add the 'wi:validation' section to the show) care to share this as a patch? (it's the surest way to start cutting the diamond out of the raw stone :-)) regards, -marc= -- Marc Portierhttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog at http://radio.weblogs.com/0116284/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody textareas?
On 30/06/2003 18:58 Luke Penca wrote: Are textareas implemented in Woody yet? I cannot find anything in the (oh so sparse) documentation. Have you checked with http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Woody ? It's not fully up to date, but that tracking CVS commit messages might help you already. Furthermore, has anyone used Woody extensively yet? (I know, I know, it's alpha at this point but I need some serious forms handling.) Should I be considering Xforms instead? Who got some experience getting their hands bloodied with forms in Cocoon? I'm ever anxious to find out. I jotted down already some of the background of Woody's genesis over here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-devm=105491414614553w=2 So its feature list is in active expansion, and it has been created to be extensively used and actively supported. HTH, /Steven -- Steven Noelshttp://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java XML Competence Support Center Read my weblog athttp://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.orgstevenn at apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody textareas?
Cocoon's form handling is (imho) it's weakest area at present although it is rapidly improving with the interplay between flow and xmlform. Unless your app is simple, I'd recommend not wasting time on the simple form validator and db actions. Pure xmlforms where you end up writing java code for each form is elegant but time consuming. I've not looked in detail at woody. However, I'd strongly recommend that you take a look at the petstore sample. This uses javascript as the interface to the persistence layer part of your model and (to my taste) a really easy to understand but flexible logic layer in a separate javascript file. The sample has switchable view layers that can be velocity/xslt/jxpath/jsomethingelse. The velocity vesion is very clean and easy to read (but there again, I used to be an assembler programmer!). Use is made of xmlform - with validation done in either schematron and/or javascript. Cheers Simon Luke Penca wrote: Are textareas implemented in Woody yet? I cannot find anything in the (oh so sparse) documentation. Furthermore, has anyone used Woody extensively yet? (I know, I know, it's alpha at this point but I need some serious forms handling.) Should I be considering Xforms instead? Who got some experience getting their hands bloodied with forms in Cocoon? I'm ever anxious to find out. Thanks in advance, Luke. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- Simon Price Institute for Learning and Research Technology University of Bristol 8-10 Berkeley Square Bristol BS8 1HH United Kingdom Direct: +44 (0)7071 226 720 Office: +44 (0)117 928 7193 Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7112 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Woody textareas?
-Original Message- From: Simon Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 30. Juni 2003 20:04 ... Cocoon's form handling is (imho) it's weakest area at present although it is rapidly improving with the interplay between flow and xmlform. ... Simon Luke Penca wrote: Are textareas implemented in Woody yet? I cannot find anything in the (oh so sparse) documentation. Furthermore, has anyone used Woody extensively yet? (I know, I know, it's alpha at this point but I need some serious forms handling.) Should I be considering Xforms instead? Who got some experience getting their hands bloodied with forms in Cocoon? I'm ever anxious to find out. ... Luke. I've just started prototyping with Woody and I think it is a diamond in the raw. Finally a form handling package that does not require you to write a bean class or Cocoon action for every little form! Coming to the original question: There is no special textarea widget but you can emulate it easily by a field widget with styling: wt:widget id=question xhtml:textarea rows=5 cols=30 wrap=physical/ /wt:widget which is then transformed into HTML as: xsl:template match=wi:field[wi:styling/xhtml:textarea] xhtml:textarea name=[EMAIL PROTECTED] xsl:apply-templates select=wi:styling/xhtml:textarea/@*/ xsl:choose xsl:when test=wi:value != '' xsl:value-of select=wi:value/ /xsl:when xsl:otherwise xsl:value-of select='#160;'/ /xsl:otherwise /xsl:choose /xhtml:textarea /xsl:template HTH, ALfred. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. The senders company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of the senders company. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
