Re: best way to generate form from xml+schema?

Hello Graham,

so you are looking for a c++, c, perl server side open source solution.

your best bets are

a ) AxKit, which uses sablotron ( though dont know where axkit has gone to
these days as i think it is being integrated with Apache possibly ), but
sablotron can be used www.gingerall.com

b) Saxon comes in , an Instant form at saxon.sourceforge.net

c) mod_xslt is a mod extension to Apache

all involve a learning curve, within xslt and outside ( especially setting
up mod_perl for use with mod extensions ).

in addition u could use the Apache Xalan c++ xslt processor.

good luck, jim fuller

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Seaman" <graham@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:29 AM
Subject: RE:  best way to generate form from xml+schema?


> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Chris Bayes wrote:
>
>
> > Wow! I would suggest a liberal use of <div elements in your form that
> > reflect your xml. Then instead of submitting the form as is you have an
> > onsubmit function that wanders over your form constructing an xml string
> > which you then post back to the server. Something like.
> <SNIP>
> > function post(obj){
> > var postString = wander(obj);
> > var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for the very detailed solution... I should have made it clearer
> that I need to do everything server-side, though. This is for a free
> software project, so I can't do anything tied to Msxml. Not only that,
> but an abnormal proportion of the users of the current (non-xsl based)
> site run with javascript turned off. And other constraints mean I also
> can't use java on the server end.... so with all that, I know I'm partly
> stuck with reinventing the wheel and doing things in inefficient
> ways.. I'm getting there, just very slowly :-)
>
> Thanks again,
> Graham
>
>
>
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