Re: Unique html name, id, and for form fields

Thanks for your response Omprakash.V.

To have a form for each action is not an option. That would require at
least 6 forms. The solution I would prefer would be to determine which
Go button was clicked then use something simular to .net's findcontrol
to find the value of the select box for that row using only one form.

So really all my xsl translation needs to do is generate unique id's,
name's, and for's for every element inside a for-each.

Taken from (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/):
Note that the collection of legal values in XML 1.0 Section 2.3,
production 5 is much larger than that permitted to be used in the ID
and NAME types defined in HTML 4. When defining fragment identifiers
to be backward-compatible, only strings matching the pattern
[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9:_.-]* should be used. See Section 6.2 of [HTML4]
for more information.

Thanks
Jeremy

On 5/11/05, Touchtel <omprakashv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>     Hi,
>         Haven't had the chance to go through your mail fully. But your
> requirement is usually handled in the following way. Have a different form
> with a distinct name for each action for e.g your form for the Approved
> action would be called "ApprovedForm" etc and each select box would be a
> part of that form. Then in the onClick event of your 'Go' button, you
submit
> the form. I know this can be done in java and Iam sure there is a way to do
> this in ASP.NET. I presume you are using .NET since you call your form
> action as transform.aspx.  But that would not be an XSLT question per se so
> if you'd like more help on that you can mail me off-list and I will try and
> help you. This should simplify your problem quite a bit if it is possible
> for you to adopt this approach.
>
>  Also, you have value/names like
"status_table_2:ac_request_1:action_list_3"
> etc which Iam not sure is allowed. The ":" is a reserved word used to
> specify namespaces in xml documents and using  that as part of your field
> names  could (will :->) throw your parser out of gear I think.
>
>   Cheers,
>    Omprakash.V