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• From: "ashutosh dandavate" <ald_blk@h...>
• To: prb@u...
• Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 06:43:02 PST

Hi Paul,
Thanks for suggestions i am working on your suggestions.
Now i have come up with exact specs, i want to use
excell template in client browser,the client enters data
then it should be converted to xml and sent to server.
Is this possible through X-tract or javaScript.
Thanks
Ashutosh



>From: "Paul R. Brown" <prb@u...>
>To: <xml-dev@x...>
>CC: "THOMAS PASSIN" <tpassin@i...>
>Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: New release of X-Tract
>Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:24:30 -0600
>
>
>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@x... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@x...]On Behalf Of
> > THOMAS PASSIN
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 11:32 PM
> > To: xml-dev@x...
> > 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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