On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 10:17, Anthony Hervé wrote: > Hello, > > Please find hereafter a quick description of my environment : > > - xReporter v121 > - Cocoon v213 > - Phoenix v404 > - Tomcat v4124 > - Java v14 SDK (IBM) > - Postgresql v732 > > I am using Woody to build forms and I would like to retrieve information > from my database to populate default field values. > In the documentation, the form_definition file is an xml document > containing links to other xml files in which simple default values can > be retrieved. In the example below, the values displayed in the > selection list are retrieved from the a-choices xml document. > > <wd:field id="fourchars"> > <wd:label>Select something that's 4 characters long:</wd:label> > <wd:datatype base="string"/> > <wd:validation> > <wd:length exact='2*2'/> > </wd:validation> > <wd:selection-list src="forms/a-choices.xml"/> > </wd:field> > > Is it possible to create the form_definition file as a xsp document to > be able to include in it esql tags ?
yes, but I would not recommend it (unless the structure of your form itself is dynamic). If you want to generate a selection list based on database data using ESQL, just call a pipeline (i.e. use cocoon:/ in the src attribute) that starts with an XSP. -- Bruno Dumon http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
