Re: [Exist-open] merging XML

[Alfredo C. <alf...@gm...>]

Hi Joe,
yes I did, a couple of years ago, but I discarded the use of XForms because
for the textareas they used an editor (it seems to me CKeditor) and to
change it was necessary to completely recompile the application (and I have
no idea how to do it) .
Since I needed an XML editor I developed my own CODEMIRROR configuration
dedicated to TEI-XML which guides my editors to write XML easily and, on
the side, also has a "note taking environment"

https://orazionelson.github.io/CodeMirrorXML4TEI/
https://orazionelson.github.io/CodeMirrorXML4TEI/editor.html

Thanks for the suggestions, I will try to study the links you gave me.

Alfredo

Il giorno lun 26 lug 2021 alle ore 15:28 Joe Wicentowski <jo...@gm...>
ha scritto:

> Hi Alfredo,
>
> It sounds like you're trying to take the input of HTML forms and generate
> XML documents from the input. Have you investigated XForms, which can
> natively store XML models in the browser and submit XML instances to eXist?
> For XForms implementations, see XSLTForms [1] and Fore ("XFormish") [2]. To
> learn more about XForms, see Steven Pemberton's tutorial [3].
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/AlainCouthures/declarative4all/raw/master/public/direct/xsltforms.zip
> [2] https://github.com/Jinntec/Fore
> [3] https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/xforms/xforms-hands-on/
>
> Joe
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 1:46 PM Alfredo Cosco <alf...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Joe, Hi all,
>> thanks for the code on github, I'm going to use it as a starting point
>> but reading your message I realized that in few I'll have other problems to
>> face.
>>
>> For example, if an element admits more than one attribute I'll have two
>> identical code snapshots to merge with different attributes.
>>
>> I'll try to write rules from different cases, but after this thread I'm
>> also thinking of rewriting all the logic of my script.
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is to create a TEI document starting from a
>> web-form, the form may vary depending from the user configurations
>>
>> So:
>> 1) I set the attribute "name" in the html input in this way:
>> *fileDesc_titleStmt_title* or *
>> fileDesc_sourceDesc_msDesc_physDesc_objectDesc *or (for attributes)
>> *fileDesc_sourceDesc_msDesc_physDesc_objectDesc_@form*
>>
>> 2) Thanks to this forum I found a way (few weeks ago) to transform the
>> *name* value in an XML snapshot:
>> <fileDesc>
>>     <titleStmt>
>>         <title/>
>>     </titleStmt>
>> </fileDesc>
>>
>> 3) Then I merge the snapshots and store an empty document in the database
>>
>> 4) Then I add the element and attribute values using the "UPDATE INSERT"
>>
>> In theory the approach works, but in practice seems to bring more
>> troubles than solutions :\
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Alfredo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Il giorno dom 25 lug 2021 alle ore 17:54 Joe Wicentowski <
>> jo...@gm...> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hi Alfredo,
>>>
>>> Slav asks good questions about the assumptions in your sample code.
>>> Assuming that duplicates should be merged rather than preserved, and
>>> testing only for element names (i.e., not examining attribute or text
>>> nodes), here's a basic query that will merge your fragments together into a
>>> structure approximating your target:
>>>
>>>   https://gist.github.com/joewiz/b38279b8bd33de6949bb891370f76a04
>>>
>>> Note that the order of fragments in the sequence you pass to the
>>> merge-fragments function is important. This is because when a new fragment
>>> is tested against the running composite document, if an element in the
>>> fragment doesn't match the element in the composite document, the
>>> fragment's element is deposited first before the rest of the composite
>>> document. This is why var3's titleStmt element appears first in the
>>> composite document, and var2's msIdentifier appears before var1's physDesc.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this gets you off to a good start and you're able to add any
>>> necessary checks besides element name to this to meet any other unstated
>>> assumptions / requirements.
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 7:32 AM Слава Седов <wet...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> If your input and output set as testcase - it is 100% testcase or data
>>>> may vary? Do you need removing any duplicates if any or it is not possible
>>>> in your input?
>>>>
>>>> With best wishes,
>>>> Slav
>>>>
>>>> вс, 25 июл. 2021 г., 14:56 Alfredo Cosco <alf...@gm...>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jean-Paul,
>>>>> I'm trying to merge the pieces on an "in memory" document then to
>>>>> store the result in a new document.
>>>>> But this logic can change if there is a better way.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alfredo
>>>>>
>>>>> Il giorno sab 24 lug 2021 alle ore 19:16 Jean-Paul Rehr <
>>>>> re...@gm...> ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Alfredo, are you creating a TEI document in memory, or are you trying
>>>>>> to insert these into an existing document stored in eXist-db?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> JPR
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 7:04 PM Alfredo Cosco <
>>>>>> alf...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>> I'm working on eXist 4.7
>>>>>>> The problem is:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have tre variables with XML code:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> let $var1 := <fileDesc>
>>>>>>> <sourceDesc>
>>>>>>> <msDesc>
>>>>>>> <physDesc>
>>>>>>> <objectDesc form=""/>
>>>>>>> </physDesc>
>>>>>>> </msDesc>
>>>>>>> </sourceDesc>
>>>>>>> </fileDesc>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> let var2 :=  <fileDesc>
>>>>>>> <sourceDesc>
>>>>>>> <msDesc>
>>>>>>> <msIdentifier>
>>>>>>> <idno/>
>>>>>>> </msIdentifier>
>>>>>>> </msDesc>
>>>>>>> </sourceDesc>
>>>>>>> </fileDesc>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> let var3 := <fileDesc>
>>>>>>> <titleStmt>
>>>>>>> <title/>
>>>>>>> </titleStmt>
>>>>>>> </fileDesc>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How can I merge there 3 snapshots and obtain something like:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <fileDesc>
>>>>>>>    <titleStmt>
>>>>>>>    <title/>
>>>>>>>    </titleStmt>
>>>>>>> <sourceDesc>
>>>>>>> <msDesc>
>>>>>>> <physDesc>
>>>>>>>   <objectDesc form=""/>
>>>>>>>   </physDesc>
>>>>>>> <msIdentifier>
>>>>>>>   <idno/>
>>>>>>>   </msIdentifier>
>>>>>>>   </msDesc>
>>>>>>>   </sourceDesc>
>>>>>>> </fileDesc>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Alfredo
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