From: "Jakob Praher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Am Mit, 2002-12-18 um 14.03 schrieb Konstantin Piroumian: > > From: "Jakob Praher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > hi, > > > > > > I am dropping my xslt/xform impl in favour of the existing cocoon xform > > > approach. > > > > > > Now I have come over some questions regarding the functionality: > > > > > > - Is it possible to bind to existing data? > > > > Elaborate on this please. What are you going to bind and where is that data > > exist? > > > > - If so how to do it ? > > > > yup. > imagine: you have a list of countries that are stored somewhere (like a > custom generator out of your app server, or an xml file on the disk ) > > you have a bean that expects one country out of a list of countries. > > so you have your xform statement like this: > > <xf:selectOne ref="/country" > > > <xf:choices> > <item .../> > </xf:choices> > > </xf:selectOne> > > mow it would be nifty to bind the items via xpath to an existing > document (for instance using the cocoon:/ uri scheme ) > > you could do it by using an xsp page, thus generating the <item />, but > I think it is such a common idea that it could be good if it is in the > framework - so you don't have to write an xsp page every time.
It's a very good idea, though, it's not much in XForms way (I mean the W3C XForms). Unfortunately, this is not implemented now. It'd be fine if you could provide a patch or send a more detailed request to cocoon-dev list, so Ivelin (the author of XMLForms) and other developers could participate in discussing it and implementing. Konstantin > > > -- Jakob > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > > > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
