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 How is an XML Schema non-generative? There are top level elements that show what the root element is. This element has a type, which has child elements, etc. If there are multiple top level elements in the schema, just pass in a parameter to the stylesheet with the name of the root element you want in your result document and follow the tree all the way to the end. See http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/15/transforming-schemas.html?page=1, or the "User Interface Generation" chapter from the following paper, which describes how one can generate an XForms from a schema using XSLT (and borrowed heavily from the examples in the xml.com article): http://dream.sims.berkeley.edu/CDE/report/go-five-final-report.html ------------------------------------- Patrick Garvey Document Engineer Talaris Corporation 1400 Fashion Island Boulevard San Mateo, CA, 94404 (650) 212 8434 phone (650) 212 8499 fax pgarvey@t... http://www.talaris.com Red Herring "Top 10 Companies to Watch" InfoWorld "Top 100 Technology Innovators" Enterprise 2002 "Top 5 New Big Thing" -----Original Message----- From: Klotz, Leigh [mailto:Leigh.Klotz@p...] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 1:22 PM To: 'Cameron Shorter'; 'xml-dev@l...' Subject: RE: Looking for a schema->html form XSL transform An XML Schema is not generative; i.e., doesn't have enough information in it to provide the basic structure of a document, so you need to start with something that says what the root element it, what elements come next, etc. If you start with a sample XML document with blanks for the content, then you can use any XForms processor to do what you're asking. You do need to provide the human-readable labels for the fields you want the user to edit, and an XPath expression that says where those fields are in the initial document. If you specify one or more XML Schemas, they will be used to validate the resulting document before it is POSTed back as XML. See http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms and http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/Test/ImplementationReport.html two fully-conformant implementations, one of which runs inside Internet Explorer. There are also some JavaScript-based implementations; they aren't fully conformant with the XForms spec, but might be good enough for your purposes. IBM has one available form download and testing. Leigh. -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron@s...] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:01 PM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Looking for a schema->html form XSL transform Hi, I want to: 1. Use XSL to build a HTML form from a schema, then 2. Build XML from the elements in the form and POST the xml back to a server. Does anyone know of XSL or javascript I can use which will address either of the above? -- Cameron Shorter http://cameron.shorter.net Open Source Developer http://generguide.sourceforge.net http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net http://geotools.org Senior Software Engineer http://www.adi-limited.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> 
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