This should be possible with regular HTML form submission as well.
Basically imagine that you have one big TEXTAREA in html with the XML
in it, and a submit button. THe submit button will simply post
whatever's in the textarea back the server.
On the server side the application that receives the data (could be
XSLT ...) can simply pull the instance data out of that parameter and
then do whatever it wants with it, write it to a file (e.g. using EXSLT
document()) write it to a database, verify it, etc.
What you said about the way XForms will automatically handle updating
the instance, is cool. Still it seems like the necessity for a
user-agent implementation is going to make it a slow slog to get XForms
into real world use.
FWIW, Kathy, I have some code that does XSLT forms from an RNG schema
that's a work in progress but demonstrates what I'm talking about.
Although it might be overkill as it's a fairly sophisticated
round-tripping pipelined but it's all XSLT, no more than 800 lines...
(which amazes me...) Anyway, it's not ready for public release yet but
if you want to have a look email me personally.
simon
On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 05:24 PM, Andrew Watt wrote:
Then when you submit the data it should be serialized and submitted as
well-formed XML.
You need something at the server end that is expecting data to be
submitted as well-formed XML, rather than name-value pairs that most
HTML forms will submit.
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