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At 09:51 18/04/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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!). Kathy, I have posted a simple example of producing an XForms-containing document using XSLT. So you can safely discard the unthinkable idea that it would be impossible to use XSLT to produce XForms. It does become interesting when you have XPath expressions in the XSLT that refer to the source XML document and other XPath expressions in the stylesheet which are literal values of XForms form control attributes. <grin/> It makes things very interesting first time round. My head is spinning Ah! Join the club! :) ...I could really use some pointers-in-the-right-direction for how to best/most easily accomplish the following: In XForms probably it would be better simply to update the <jargon>instance data</jargon> then submit later - at least that's what I would be tempted to do. Does this make sense? Please point me in the right direction. How to capture data as the user goes along AS AN XML INSTANCE? XForms will soon be the answer as the W3C means to submit XML data, I think. It is currently at Candidate Recommendation. The CR is not the most readable document the W3C has ever produced. Micah Dubinko's draft of an XForms book he is writing is online at http://dubinko.info/writing/xforms/book.html. It is probably the most readable publicly available document on XForms of any length. But it has few complete examples. BTW Microsoft's InfoPath (currently in beta) looks to have a very similar pattern of thought behind it. It uses XSLT (and JavaScript) under the covers. Andrew Watt XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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