Marc Portier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andreas Hochsteger wrote:
Hi!month, year)
A short question comes to my mind, while reading your RT:
Is it possible to use data types which are composed of several HTML
input fields?
We are currently using three input fields for dates (day,
at our current form solution.No, not currently...
I had a proposing shot at this some weeks ago, see some remarks hidden in this posting:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=105712568410208&w=2
in short: I think the existing aggregate-widget could be adapted to support this
This is an extremely important issue in a generalized form building
system. It's more than just splitting and combining a field, you really
want to completely decouple the rendering from the form model as much as
you can. If course that's one of the things that XSLT is all about
which takes one full circle into templating languages: at some point
isn't it just easier to find a way to plug in custom XSLT transforms for
rendering? Maybe not full scale XSLT, but perhaps rather something
along the lines of what Schematron does (element rule matching) only for
rendering. If the element has a rendering rule (a full scale XSLT
template inside of some XML object) you apply it to create the output
representation, otherwise you get the default rendering. Similarly, if
the element has a collection(?) rule (what's the opposite of rendering?)
you run it as a XSLT template. Not sure if that would work for you
guys, but it's likely where we're headed...
That's exactly what I did for an XMLForm-based prototype : a few "UIType" attributes on XMLForm's widgets drive the layout :
- UIType="calendar" on a <xf:textbox> changes the input to a input+popup calendar
- UIType="table" on a <xf:repeat> changes the group's layout to a table (each set of children becomes a table row) while the default behaviour is to layout each set of children as an html <fieldset>
This allows the template (going back to Woody terms) to completely abstract the rendering details of the layout, and concentrate only on the description of this layout.
Sylvain
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