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Hi Amol,
Have you looked into XForms? It seems to address most of the issues you
have stated below. There is a nice open source (server-side)
implementation called Chiba at:
http://chiba.sourceforge.net/
By 'server-side', I mean it converts an XML document which includes some
XForms elements into a document containing HTML+JavaScript which gets
sent to the user-agent. An alternative is to use a client-side
implementation such as a plug-in.
Other XForms implementations can be found here:
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/#implementations
Regards,
...Leif
amol wrote:
> Am pretty new to xml and this is my first post.
>
> Scenario:
> 1. Application has some data stored in xml format.
>
> 2. Application wants the user to be able to edit this data over the web.
>
> 3. This warrants the need for a generic application which can convert
> xml documents to html forms and html forms back to xml documents.
>
> 4. To generat a form, it would need to know the details of the
> individual elements, e.x., the data type, possible values if any, etc.
> Now, this is possible only if this form generator is able to read the
> "schema" of that xml document.
>
> 5. Thus, using the schema document, this application would generate a
> corresponding html form. The user will enter information in this form,
> and on submit, this application will again convert the form data into
> the required xml document.
>
> This scenario looks pretty generic. Lot of people may have had to do
> this. Isnt there any open source solution to this problem anywhere?
> I tried google for a solution but couldnt find a comprehensive one.
> One approach could be to have xsl to convert any schema document to
> html form. Has anyone done it before?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Amol
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