Re: [Xsltforms-support] Off-line XForms

[Joe W. <jo...@gm...>]

Alain,

I have something that you might consider, if I understand you
correctly.  It handles elements and attributes, and flags mixed
content as uneditable.

Inspired by C.M. Sperberg-McQueen's "Introduction to XForms for XML
Users" course, which was based around XSLTForms (see course materials
at
http://xforms201102.blackmesatech.com/), I decided to create a generic
XML-to-XForms generator.  The idea was to create a fairly generic "XML
viewer" that would also let you edit content.  It works well, except,
of course, with mixed content - so I simply don't let nodes with mixed
content be edited.

I wrote this in the form of an XQuery application designed for
eXist-db (I am using 1.5dev).  I've attached the files here.  Just
unzip and drag the "xml2form" folder into your db (so you have
/db/xml2form), and run
http://localhost:8080/exist/rest/db/xml2form/xml2form.xq.  This will
pull up a form view of the "members.xml" file in the same directory.
If you want to try running your own XML documents through, just use
the "doc" URL parameter, e.g. xml2form.xq?doc=/db/path/to/file.xml.

The part I'm happiest about is how it dynamically constructs the
xf:input/@ref XPath value by counting ancestors - so if you view
source on the generated code you'll see
members[1]/member[2]/surname[1], etc.  I also did a little extra work
to make it work with namespaced documents, like TEI or DocBook
documents.

Hope you find it useful.

Joe