xml-dev - RE: ANNOUNCE: New release of X-Tract

["Paul R. Brown" <prb@uic.edu>]

I thought about this a little more last night, and there are some advantages
to using XML on the client side.

If you want to use a form to collect multiple pieces of disparate data and
send them to the server simultaneously, you can do it by successively adding
to an XML document in a hidden form element.  (Perhaps you have different
subforms on different DIVs or LAYERs...)  Using XML is certainly superior to
a delimited format for debugging, readability, and reusability (although not
for total size!), and XML is also superior to storing the forms, e.g., in an
array, and document.write-ing a new form to a separate document or DIV and
then submitting it.

	- Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xml-dev@xml.org [mailto:owner-xml-dev@xml.org]On Behalf Of
> THOMAS PASSIN
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 11:32 PM
> To: xml-dev@xml.org
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: New release of X-Tract
>
>
> ashutosh dandavate wrote
> > Hi,
> > I am looking out for a xml doc generator, at the
> > client browser after client enters data in fields,
> > that data i want to send to web server as xml doc
> > can xml script be used for that purpose? or any
> > other method you know of?
> > Thanks
> > Ashutosh
> >
> >
>
> I favor about doing it with Javascript in the client browser.  You could
> store the generated XML in a hidden field in another form and
> POST the form
> to send the xml to the server.  With Javascript, you could even create
> classes for every data field, if you wanted, that generate the xml.  Some
> people say they don't like Javascript because some browsers don't have it,
> but some browsers don't do forms either.  And "efficiency" won't be
> important because a human-usable form to collect data won't be
> that long or
> complicated.
>
> Tom Passin
>
>
>
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