RE: Using XForms to edit XML

Dear Jeremy,

what you ask for is a fairly often requested feature. Unfortunately, it
is also a very difficult one. With the usual disclaimers, XForms 1.0
does not support markup in the data. "<" and "&" will be recoded on the
fly to "&lt;" and "&amp;". The handling is essentially identical to
XSL-T's.

I'm sure we will look into this very deeply when we come to XForms 2.0.
Do you have any idea how to make this work with arbitrary markup
languages?

Josef

> -----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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Received on Tuesday, 2 October 2001 08:02:29 UTC