- From: Dharmesh Mistry <Dharmesh.Mistry@edgeipk.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:10:47 -0000
- To: "Micah Dubinko" <micah@dubinko.info>, <John.Hockaday@ga.gov.au>
- Cc: <www-forms@w3.org>
Sorry if I am a little slow to understand this, but I am searching for a practical use of your scenario? However on the question of generating XForms from schema defs then this is a problem addressed by Polaris in the UK. Polaris (a UK general insurance standards group) like many standards companies produces standard schema's for insurance products. They wanted to generate XForms from these schema's. So then created "annotated schema's" which could be parsed to generate XForms. (This is all public domain). Our experience of this is for basic user interaction this is very possible, given some annotation. However when more interactive user experience is required you end up with a very heavily "annotated" schema.......thus mitigating many of the benefits of doing so in the first place. Kind regards.................Dharmesh --------------------------------------------------------------- Dharmesh Mistry CTO, edge IPK E: dharmesh@edgeipk.com M: 07789 222 015 Newbury Office T +44 (0) 1635 231 231 F +44 (0) 1635 569 371 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------- This message may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. edge IPK Limited Registered office - 9 Wardle Avenue, Tilehurst, Reading, Berkshire RG31 6JR Registered in England No. 4286817 -----Original Message----- From: www-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Micah Dubinko Sent: 22 November 2004 18:00 To: John.Hockaday@ga.gov.au Cc: www-forms@w3.org Subject: Re: Generation of Xforms HTML web page using a XML Schema Definition I started doing something like this for a client, but it just got way too complicated. How about this: 1. Start with an XML instance document 2. Add small annotations for calculations, etc. 3. Transform the instance document directly into XForms, including default values taken from the instance. Much simple, and so far working well. http://examploforms.org ..micah John.Hockaday@ga.gov.au wrote: >Hi, > >Can Xforms generate an HTML web form page from an XSD? Eg. DTD, RELAXNG, XML >Schema. I would like to have some type of software that reads an XSD and >generates an HTML web forms page that complies to that XSD. When the user >fills out and submits the HTML form the contents would generate and XML >document instance that complies to the XSD. > >Similarly, it would be good if Xforms can solve this following scenario: > >1. a user cuts and pastes an XML document instance into an HTML text input >form and submits it, > >2. software gets the XSD that is referenced in the submitted XML document >instance, > >3. the software then generates an Xforms HTML web page that complies with the >referenced XSD, > >4. the software then populates the contents of the Xforms HTML web page with >the content from the submitted XML document instance, > >5. the user can submit the Xforms HTML web page after they have edited the >content, > >6. the software then checks to see if the now edited content of the Xforms >HTML web page complies with the XSD and lets the user know of compliance or >and errors. > >It would be fantastic if Xforms or some other W3C specification can do this. > >Thanks. > >John Hockaday >Geoscience Australia >GPO Box 378 >Canberra ACT 2601 >(02) 6249 9735 >http://www.ga.gov.au/ >john.hockaday\@ga.gov.au > > -- Available for consulting. XForms, web forms, information overload. Micah Dubinko mailto:micah@dubinko.info Brain Attic, L.L.C. http://brainattic.info Yahoo IM: mdubinko Learn XForms today: http://xformsinstitute.com
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