- From: Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@cern.ch>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:58:54 +0200
- To: Flinton Adam <Adam.Flinton@cfh.nhs.uk>
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org
Flinton Adam: > I would like to create a standalone editor if possible & I'd like to be > able to have an "open file" & then save/save as functionality. > > i.e. use IE + Novell plugin or possibly mozilla/firefox when it's ready > (or even OpenOffice possibly) to open an Xforms document & then use it > to populate it's model by opening another xml file of the requisite > structure/followng the correct schema & then after editing the XML > through the Xform UI to do a save/save as. > > Any ideas? I'm using Chiba to do this (sort of). The current implementation is client-side only (Apache Tomcat, Chiba, XForms, and XML), and uses the PUT submit method (with replace=none) to save to a file. The name of the input/output files can be controlled with a URL parameter. The biggest question would probably be whether you can use this to serve XForms from a server and save locally directly. If you cannot, you can always use the POST method, save the contents on the server, and send it to the client as a downloadable file when submitting. Anyone here with an example? For the schema issue, you could maybe use schema2XForms (also from the Chiba guys). HTH :) -- Victor Engmark "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." - Yogi Berra
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