Are people still writing apps in XSP? I thought that usage of XSP was deprecated and that it had long been supplanted by other, more robust, technologies and techniques. FWIW, the way I do this is to use an SQLTransformer and stylesheet combo: 1. The query (say, XYZ-lookup.xml): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <page xmlns:sql="http://apache.org/cocoon/SQL/2.0"; > <sql:execute-query> <sql:query name="theme-list"> SELECT FieldA AS id, FieldB AS data FROM myTable </sql:query> </sql:execute-query> </page> 2. The stylesheet (say, keys2list.xsl): <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:sql="http://apache.org/cocoon/SQL/2.0"; > <xsl:template match="/"><xsl:apply-templates select="page"/></xsl:template> <xsl:template match="page"> <xsl:apply-templates select="sql:rowset"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="sql:rowset"> <select name="theme" class="frmField"> <xsl:apply-templates select="sql:row"/> </select> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="sql:row"><option value="{sql:id}"><xsl:value-of select="sql:data"/></option></xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 3. And the pipeline match: <map:match pattern="lookup-*"> <map:generate src="queries/lookup/{1}-lookup.xml" type="jx" > <use-request-parameters>true</use-request-parameters> </map:generate> <map:transform type="sql"> <map:parameter name="use-connection" value="myConnection"/> <map:parameter name="show-nr-of-rows" value="true"/> <map:parameter name="clob-encoding" value="UTF-8"/> </map:transform> <map:transform src="stylesheets/lookup/keys2list.xsl"> <use-request-parameters>true</use-request-parameters> </map:transform> <map:serialize /> </map:match> 4. And the call from the form would be: <fd:selection-list src="cocoon:/db/lookup-XYZ" dynamic="true"/> 5. Obviously, adding new lookup lists would simply be a matter of adding new XML files with new queries (using the same field renaming convention so as to be able to reuse the stylesheet), named so that they can be "found" by the same pipeline. Hope this helps! Derek
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006/07/04 11:22 PM >>> Jason Johnston wrote: > > how to make a SQL query in javascript. > > It can be done, though the syntax isn't quite as nice. I'd like to give it a try, if the syntax isn't unbearable. Do you have any pointers? Although most of all I'd rather do it in ESQL in an XSP page and then somehow call it from javascript and get an array out of the xml produced. Is there a way to do that? > But there's also JavaSelectionList, which mysteriously doesn't appear > to be in the published user docs. It sounds like this is closer to > what you're looking for. Thanks, that's quite fitting to what I need. Although I'd still rather do it in XSP, for consistency with all the other DB queries in this app. Thinking about it, I could write an XSP-JavaSelectionList logicsheet... Toby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright, terms and conditions and e-mail legal notice. Views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIR. CSIR E-mail Legal Notice http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_eMail_Legal_Notice.html CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions http://mail.csir.co.za/CSIR_Copyright.html For electronic copies of the CSIR Copyright, Terms and Conditions and the CSIR Legal Notice send a blank message with REQUEST LEGAL in the subject line to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
