On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:02:02 +0100, echarp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The cforms binding can not handle this (easily)
>
> see:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-users&m=110146268307395&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-users&m=108127256626966&w=2
>
> Personnaly I'm loading it in my flow like this:
> // bind the document data to the form
> form.load(document);
<snip/>
In case you find it useful, this is a custom binding I'm using (far
from robust but working so far). Compile it as use it like this:
<fb:context path="/" >
<fb:custom id="content" path="whatever"
class="com.orixo.cocoon.forms.binding.CustomXmlAsStringBinding"/>
</fb:context>
*
* Copyright (c)2004 Pronetics S.r.l. - All rights reserved
*/
package com.orixo.cocoon.forms.binding;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException;
import org.apache.cocoon.forms.binding.AbstractCustomBinding;
import org.apache.cocoon.forms.binding.BindingException;
import org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.Widget;
import org.apache.cocoon.xml.XMLUtils;
import org.apache.commons.jxpath.JXPathContext;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
/**
* Simple custom binding for HTMLArea and XML data.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Gianugo Rabellino </a>
* @version $Id$
*/
public class CustomXmlAsStringBinding extends AbstractCustomBinding {
/**
* Serialize the node as String upon load.
*
* @see
org.apache.cocoon.forms.binding.AbstractCustomBinding#doLoad(org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.Widget,
* org.apache.commons.jxpath.JXPathContext)
*/
protected void doLoad(Widget frmModel, JXPathContext context)
throws BindingException {
Node value = (Node) context.getContextPointer().getNode();
try {
frmModel.setValue(XMLUtils.serializeNode(value));
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
} catch (ProcessingException e) {
throw new BindingException("Unable to serialize node", e);
}
}
/**
* Parse and import the XML String upon save.
*
* @throws IOException
* @throws SAXException
* @see
org.apache.cocoon.forms.binding.AbstractCustomBinding#doSave(org.apache.cocoon.forms.formmodel.Widget,
* org.apache.commons.jxpath.JXPathContext)
*/
protected void doSave(Widget frmModel, JXPathContext context)
throws BindingException, SAXException, IOException {
DocumentBuilder builder = null;
try {
builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
} catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
throw new BindingException("Problem getting a parser", e);
}
Document dom = builder.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(
(String) frmModel.getValue())));
Node result = ((Node) context.getContextPointer().getNode())
.getOwnerDocument().importNode(dom.getDocumentElement(), true);
context.getContextPointer().setValue(result);
}
}
HTH,
--
Gianugo Rabellino
Pro-netics s.r.l. - http://www.pro-netics.com
Orixo, the XML business alliance: http://www.orixo.com
(blogging at http://www.rabellino.it/blog/)
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