Why using CForms at all ? If you use XSLT you can transform dynamic XML data into HTML5 native forms templates.
Greetings, -Greg 2013/2/18 Mika M Lehtonen <m...@digikartta.net> > Yep, > sounds like a lot of work and like re-inventing the wheel.. > > - mika - > > > 18.2.2013 10:47, Francesco Chicchiriccò kirjoitti: > > On 17/02/2013 20:08, Mika M Lehtonen wrote: > > Hi Francesco, > let me tell you what I have now. > I implemented a feedback web application for municipial use with C2.11. > The app is built so that the administrator can create forms picking fields > and controls he/she needs. These setting are saved into db. The end-user > app reads these settings from db, creates XML definition and through XSL > transforms these settings into valid Cforms definition/template and finally > creates forms wanted out of this all. > > This is highly dynamic system where we also implemented special data model > where horizontal tables are converted into vertical direction, that is, > there is one row per fom field, not a column. > > I was warned about using C2.11 for this, but I wanted to use it anyway > because I was familiar with it already. Now I would like to get rid of > C2.11 but I really don't know how. I would like to switch into C3 but that > is something I am not familiar with. > > I could go with the stream and use AJAX and like jQuery.. still i would > have the same problem - how to create controls out of XML definition. So > XML driven form platform is something I would prefer, you see, I would only > need XSLT. > > I hope I made my needs little clearer. > > > Yes, definitely. > * > *Basically, you need to dynamically build some web forms from an XML > definition you get from an external source: let me say that this is a > perfect suite for C2.1 (and C2.2) with CForms. > > Now, since you want to move away from C2.1 (and not for C2.2 I guess), > you'd like to have some tools that, parsing the XML form definition > generates a Wicket form, with all controls full featured. > > While this is perfectly feasible without C3 (I did something similar, even > though limited, in Apache Syncope), I'd think you could empower the > integration between C3 and Wicket for this purpose. Only, consider that > there is nothing implemented yet in this respect, so you would be the first. > > Regards. > > 17.2.2013 20:30, Francesco Chicchiriccò kirjoitti: > > On 15/02/2013 22:11, Mika M Lehtonen wrote: > > Hi, > I have an application using dynamic Cforms (C2.11), that is, the Cforms > definition and templates are created from dynamic XML through XSL. > > Can this be done with C3 and wickets? > From somewhere I read about the fact that with Apache Wickets you don't > need any XML.. > > > Hi Mika, > what do you want to achieve exactly? > > Apache Wicket is a component-based framework for developing web > applications: I know from their project site that the project claims "a > refreshing lack of XML", and I also know that Wicket fully supports form > processing. > > From the other side, Cocoon 3.0 features Wicket integration (more details > at [1]) that can help achieving some particular use cases. > > Regards. > > [1] > http://cocoon.apache.org/3.0/reference/html-single/index.html#wicket-integration > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > ASF Member, Apache Syncope PMC chair, Apache Cocoon PMC > Memberhttp://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ > > >
