AW: Stylesheet for Transforming HTML forms to XForms

Hi David,

Thanks a lot for that great feedback.
I will immediately include your suggestions :)
Sorry, I forgot to attach my test-cases...
They can be found - beside the source code - at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xhtml-to-xforms

wbr,
Roman

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: David Landwehr [mailto:david.landwehr@solidapp.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 16:17
> An: Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE)
> Cc: www-forms@w3.org
> Betreff: Re: Stylesheet for Transforming HTML forms to XForms
> 
> Hi Roman,
> 
> Really excellent and exciting work!
> 
> I have some suggestions:
> 1) the xhtml:form is kept in the resulting document after the
> transformation. It would be great to remove the element and replace it
> with a group. The group could have ref="/instance" to remove the
> requirement for the child controls to have that part in they refs.
> 2) It would really be cool to create a model or instance for each form
> in the document. That would require proper model namespacing. Because
> xhtml forms always are separated by its parent form element, that can
> simply be done using a model/ref with instance('')  on the transforming
> of  the xhtml:form element like xforms:group ref="instance('ins1')"
> model="model1".
> 3) A nice feature would be to transform a xhtml:label like:
> <xhtml:label for="ctrl1">Label</xhtml:label><xhtml:input type="input"
> name="some" value="bb" id="ctrl1"/>
> to
> <xforms:input ref="/instance/some">
>   <xforms:label>Label</xforms:label>
> </xforms:input>
> 
> 4) For input/@type="file" it does not generate a instance element to
> hold the value. It would be great if it did that and additional
> specified the type to be e.g. a base 64 encoding using
> xsi:type="xsd:base64Binary".
> 
> If you shared the html files you use to test with it would be much
> easier to provide you with feedback.
> 
> Again really great work!
> 
> Best regards,
> David
> 
> 
> Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just tried to write an XSLT stylesheet for transforming simple HTML
> > forms to their XForms equivalents. I hope that I have considered all
> > controls mentioned by selfhtml and the "XForms for HTML Authors"
> > document.
> > I would be glad to get any input on it :)
> >
> > wbr,
> > Roman
> >
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