Re: Templating/subforms

joernturner wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> can you please give a bit more information about this stylesheet (url)?
>
> We have a similar solution but custom-made (sorry for late reply - 
> being sick today). Probably you're interested in our simplified syntax 
> as it makes assembly easier - let me know.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>

OK...

A) As soon as I've finished the bit I am working on (which includes the 
XInclude) I will be updating my code on the Open Health Tools/XMLProcess svn
See:

https://xmlprocess.projects.openhealthtools.org/

B) http://dret.net/projects/xipr/

C) I have made a few tweaks to it but they are minor (error handling, 
remove whitespace etc).

D) I don't mind wrt the "how" but I have to have the capability as 
XForms designs end up very "copy & paste" very quickly w/o it as xml is 
inherently tree based & thus you will have to display the same 
information at a variety of levels (including in repeats which 
themselves possibly contain repeats etc).

E) For efficiency I have a system which builds the XForm skeleton once & 
then  stores the dom in a cache. When requested it fills the models etc. 
As such the XInclude only needs to be run on the "if not in cache load 
from file" part.
 

Adam

> On 26.09.2008, at 16:44, Adam Flinton <adam.flinton@nhs.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Adam Flinton wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> We have some fairly complex XML documents (often deeply nested)
>>>
>>> We often have the need to show a given element in it's own form, in 
>>> a superform (often as a repeat) & then in a super-superform (where 
>>> the super form is itself a repeat).
>>>
>>> At the moment this involves a lot of cut & paste etc where instead 
>>> we were wondering if there wads any sort of templating/subform 
>>> technology/standard out there which would allow us to define forms 
>>> at their lowest level and then compose superforms from those forms.
>>>
>>> e.g. the other day a simple attribute was added to an element which 
>>> meant changing the form for that element (it is quite a 
>>> complex/multi-attribute element) .
>>>
>>> This meant that there was copy and paste going on to......five other 
>>> forms (super, super-super, super-super-super which used/showed that 
>>> element.
>>>
>>> We can do this ourselves as our engine assembles the XForms and 
>>> fills in values etc prior to sending it to chiba for rendering into 
>>> HTML however I do do want to go out on a limb and recreate something 
>>> where there is an existing or standard way of doing this.
>>>
>>> e.g. I can put in resolvable hrefs which our XForms composer can 
>>> then use to pull in all the fragments and to ensure that all 
>>> (Xforms) refs are locally rooted.
>>
>> I have solved this using XInclude and the xipr stylesheet.
>>
>> Adam
>>
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