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Am back again.
Unfortunately, it comes with extremely poor
documentation. There are about 10 samples to demonstrate the various features
but all these are "end products". Not even a single case study which describes
how to get to those forms in steps.
Even the mailing list is not very active. Any
chiba experts around? We could take the discussion off the list if it is out of
scope of this mailing list.
I tried to convert my schema, but its not
working. Got some problems, solved them, but still, its not working. I have a
few questions if there's a chiba expert/regular user around.
Thanks
Amol
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:38
AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] W3C Schema to HTML form.
Is a generic solution available?
> 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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