On 8/10/06, Mak Nern Fatt Melvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I cannot use a single form for my document because I have yet another form nested in-between the two forms. Please see the illustration below:
There's no way you can submit two forms at the same time using the http protocol. The only thing you can do is copy all of the form data from the non-submitted form into hidden fields on your submitted form using javascript.
The child form is independent of the two parent forms and is the child section has to be nested in-between the parent forms due to user-requirement. The save button has to save all the parent components. You have any more idea on this?
The use of html forms is a technicial decision and should not affect any user requirements. This is particularly true in JSF where an h:form doesn't work the same way as a traditional html form -- it submits the previous values of all other forms on the page using hidden fields (but these are not the updated values). Unless the end-user is using "view source" there's no way they're going to know how the forms are laid out underneath, and I really doubt the end-users care how you structure your html form elements. The only use case I've seen for having multiple forms is to do selective validation, and even then, there are other ways to get around the issue. If you explain why you think you cannot have your child section in the same form as the rest of the components, maybe we can help you come up with a an alternate solution as trying to submit two forms at the same time is going to be a very difficult problem to solve.
