Hi Colin, We have forms which we dynamically render based on an underlying (xml) set of questions and response types. We use a simple table to render the form and provide a set of form elements (lists, radio buttons, spinners, text entry) each with an appropriate validator and message and then render only one of the form elements based on the needs of the particular question. As no validation or input is performed on a non-rendered component it works very well and provides a robust and flexible way of creating forms on the fly. One detail we needed to manage was returning the value of an arbitary form element after the form is submitted. We achieved this by creating an updatable list of objects and then convert the resulting object to an expected value type. This is actually easy as we set up converters on each control which gurantees the return type unless a valiation error is thrown.
-----Original Message----- From: Colin Chalmers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 2:39 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: parsing xml to build UI Hi all, I have an interesting problem whereby I'm receiving xml from an external party which defines error messages and validation rules as well as input types. I'm looking into mapping this to UIcomponents via a sax parser but am kind of against building my screen in code and want to do the layout in the template. The number of input elemants is dynamic and may change. I was looking into phase listeners to aid me in doing this but would like to check if anyone else has built something similiar or worked regularly integrating components in code with template layouts.??? Colin
