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Subject: RE: I have the XSLT, now need to make it usable asuser-inp ut form?
From: "Kathy Burke" <Kathy_Burke@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:02:17 -0400
xslt system time
>I'm not sure if it's actually possible to "save" the data before they 
>submit the form. I've never heard of a web technology that does that ..

By "save" I actually meant to submit the form repeatedly in order NOT to
lose any user input (the same document could be in use for hours), also I
need to capture system time repeadetly for each "step" that is checked
off...hoping to do that using an attribute on the <step> element...somehow.

Anyway, the sad thing is I can tranform the xml data I need and make it look
pretty...but can't seem to get my brain around saving the xml instance of
any give doc.

Thanks for your input.
Kathy


-----Original Message-----
From: S Woodside [mailto:sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 12:49 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  I have the XSLT, now need to make it usable as
user-input form?


Kathy, what are you using? Javascript? is this xslt being applied 
server side or client side? do you have a toolset or rolling your own?

I'm not sure if it's actually possible to "save" the data before they 
submit the form. I've never heard of a web technology that does that ..

that said, using xslt you'll use the same techniques you use for any 
other forms in HTML. I agree, stay away from Xforms for now, they are 
not "there" yet in the browsers. as far as checking the data, you must 
do it on the server side for security, I'm not sure exactly how you 
might accomplish that if it's a data-integrity problem, you could POST 
to a regular CGI and do the checks there, or potentially there might be 
some system available that uses a schema to check the results (using 
W3C XML schema data types maybe).

simon

On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 09:51  AM, Kathy Burke wrote:

> Happy Friday!
>
> With much help from this list, I've now got a quite nice html output 
> form
> based on an xsl stylesheet for a work instruction (step-by-step) etc.
>
> I've been reading a lot of posts re: xforms, etc., but it doesn't look 
> as if
> I could use my xsl (which would be unthinkable!).
>
> My head is spinning...I could really use some
> pointers-in-the-right-direction for how to best/most easily accomplish 
> the
> following:
>
> The xsl/xml instance presents the user with an html form of process 
> steps to
> follow. Each step has a checkbox (when checked I want to store the
> SystemTime in an attribute value), and there are several user input 
> boxes
> along the way. When any user input is made, I do need to either check 
> the
> value against the xml attribute (e.g., high/low) and/or record the 
> data (in
> case it gets lost before a final form POST. My thought was to SAVE the 
> xml
> instance each time the user action occurs, overwriting the xml file 
> each
> time until the end of the process is reached.
>
> Does this make sense? Please point me in the right direction. How to 
> capture
> data as the user goes along AS AN XML INSTANCE? and how to assign a
> system(time) variable to an element attribute (many occurences in the 
> same
> document).
>
> Thank you!
>
> Kathy
>
>
>
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>
>

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