Let me explain the idea a little bit more:
I created an XSLT that generates an XForms from any XML document instance, just
allowing the user to paste the XML code in the page an clicking a button to run
the transform. An "almost finished" version can be found in
http://www.xmlstairways.com/xforms.xq
The page is actually built with plain javascript, but I believe it's a shame to
create an XForms Generator but no using XForms itself.
I want to create an XForms version that stores the source XML instance and the
resulting XForms as xf:instances, like this:
http://www.xmlstairways.com/xfgen.xq
TinyMCE could help, but the problem of converting from its content to an XML
instance still remains.
The processing should be totally client side, although I tried to do it server
side with eXist-db but unsuccessfully.
I don't see another scenario where parsing XML from a control could be useful,
so I understand this could be hard to achieve.
Thanks again
- Bill
De: Dan McCreary [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviado el: lunes, 21 de octubre de 2013 15:29
Para: William Velasquez
CC: [email protected]
Asunto: Re: [Xsltforms-support] Parsing XML from textarea
Hello William,
>From what I understand of how XSLTForms works, you can only store "escaped"
>XML within any textarea control. Most of the rich text editors then make the
>text look like HTML or XML, but within the browser DOM the text is stored in a
>single string.
When you do a "save" you can then use the parse() function on the server side
to convert the escaped string into XML and transform it.
I think that Alain has a nice example of the powerful TinyMCE editor here:
http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms/tinymce.xml
You might be able to configure TinyMCE to work like much an XML editor.
See http://www.tinymce.com/
Claudius Teodorescu has quite a bit of experience doing in-browser XML editing
using DocBook and TEI using the TEI-Ann product.
http://teian.sourceforge.net/
- Dan
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:24 PM, William Velasquez
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm building an XForms where the user could be able to paste XML code in a
textarea and then apply an XSL transformation to the pasted code.
In order to be able to do it, I tried two alternatives with no success:
1. Parse the XML code and store it in an instance (there is no function
to parse xml text to instances)
2. Directly apply the transformation to the XML code and store the result
in an instance (the transform() function only accepts nodes as input, not plain
text.
The missing piece is how to parse the content of the textarea. XPath 3.0
defines serialize()to convert an instance to text and parse-xml() to do the
reverse process.
XSLTForms implements the serialize() function, but the parse-xml() is not
available.
Some body knows a shortcut to do this?
Thanks in advance,
William David Velásquez
Director de Investigación y Desarrollo
Visión Tecnológica S.A.S.
www.visiontecnologica.com<http://www.visiontecnologica.com>
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