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http://www.fastnetltd.ndirect.co.uk/Perl/CGI-ToXML-0.01.tar.gz Sorry to XML-Dev people who aren't interested in web based XML, or perl. This is a first stab at a module to create XML from HTML forms via the CGI.pm library. It uses a naming convention for form variables to construct arbitrary XML on the server. The naming convention is: <input name="root:branch1(attrib=Val):branch2"> and for attribute setting: <input name="root:branch1(attrib=Val):branch2:branch3(AttName=?)"> It's far from perfect, the elements must come in the order that they are to appear in the XML, and the use of colons prevents the use of namespaces (but that can change to e.g. forward slashes), and there are numerous bugs, but it could be of use to some people. Please provide me with as much feedback as possible. Things I'm interested in are: The design of the naming convention Bugs Module Design Bugs that I know about are: - It doesn't cope particularly well with attributes - It doesn't do any escaping (i.e. put an & in your form and it will just put an ampersand in the XML). - It may have problems with certain XML structures, such as repeating groups of elements. And Merry Christmas Everyone! Matt. -- http://come.to/fastnet Perl on Win32, PerlScript, ASP, Database, XML GCS(GAT) d+ s:+ a-- C++ UL++>UL+++$ P++++$ E- W+++ N++ w--@$ O- M-- !V !PS !PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5 R tv+ X++ b+ DI++ D G-- e++ h--->z+++ R+++ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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