RE: Using XML & XSL for a form language

Hi Cliff;

Firstly, I don't know of an "xslt file" or an xslt script that "translates"
the HTML tag set. The first question that comes to my mind, is what is the
HTML tag set transformed to?. I would think that finding an xml dtd for html
such as might be found at www.w3.org/html . I'd like to also suggest that
XHTML would be a better target then the now obsolete HTML.

I was sufficiently interested to go looking, and came across this:
http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker/XSLT/#xmlverbatim . It may or
may not be of interest to you, but it does deal with xml->html conversion.

Secondly, are you aware that several form markup language initiatives
already exist? Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) has XSD (I think that's what it's
called) which will do everything up to a full-on GUI from an xml-based
description. There is also XForms ("The Next Generation Of Web Forms") at
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Dave LeBlanc
(who just happens to be a State Farm customer :-) )

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Subject:  Using XML & XSL for a form language



I am working on a project to create a form language in XML that
would be translated by XSL into a new XSL file.

This file would subsequently be used to translate business related XML
into HTML to the client.  The reason for doing this is to provide
flexibility in constructing forms by storing the initial XML in database
tables and to provide flexibility to changing amounts of business data.

I have a couple of questions related to this project.

First, do you know of an XSLT file that translates the HTML tag set?

The form language will be very similar to HTML.  Second, do you feel that
this scheme will work?


Cliff Andreas, (HNJR)
Sys Spec I,
State Farm Insurance,
cliff.andreas.hnjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(314)839-7158

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