RE: Using XForms to edit XML

Jeremy,

yep, that works. The Mozquito XML WebAccess 2.0
server-side XForms implementation which ships 
coming Monday allows you to do just that.

Check out this XForm:
http://solutions.mozquito.com/forms/vanguard/BeneficaryDesignation.xhtml
(BTW, new feature: add "?mzq_source=ui" at the end of the URL
to see the original XForms markup source).

The above XForm is "editing" this XML file:
http://solutions.mozquito.com/forms/vanguard/BeneficaryDesignation.xml

Similar XForm, the XML message board:
http://solutions.mozquito.com/forms/messages/messages.xhtml
edits the XML at:
http://solutions.mozquito.com/forms/messages/messages.xml
using the following XForms markup:
http://solutions.mozquito.com/forms/messages/messages.xhtml?mzq_source=u
i

BTW, the latest beta of XML WebAccess 2.0 
and the final version next Monday has 
W3C XPath 1.0 fully implemented in XForms!

All the best,

- Sebastian



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Quinn [mailto:www-forms@media.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:48 PM
> To: www-forms@w3.org
> Subject: Using XForms to edit XML
> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> One of the purposes we will initially use (server-side) 
> implementations of
> XForms for, is the development of content-management systems.
> 
> One thing I cannot work out at the moment ..... will the 
> XForms standard be
> able to deal with editing XML.
> 
> ie. Serialising an XML Fragment from the XFormInstance, to a 
> textfield,
> then parsing the edited content back in again.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> regards Jeremy
> -- 
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> 
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