Re: [xml-dev] HTML forms with XML

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Peter V. Mikhalenko <>
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2002-04-29T15:26:40Z
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Re: [xml-dev] HTML forms with XML
Hello, Sikri,!

 SY> Hi All,
 SY> We have XML files and corresponding schemas(xsd) and XSL's for them.
 SY> Now we need to use a product or build something that will generate a
 SY> HTML form for the schema. The end-users want to use HTML type forms
 SY> or a online mode(Applet) to enter the XML data, rather than install
 SY> a product(like
 SY> XMLSpy) to enter HTML data.

 SY> Please advice if you have any ideas and/or information about such
 SY> products.
 SY> Regards, Yogi.

We are using for similar purposes the XForms product from Nanoworks Inc. -
it is pretty old (it seems that it was written before the W3C Xforms 1.0
Draft), and, unfortunately, is unsupported at the moment. But it can
generate HTML forms with/without client validation (JavaScript),
with/without server validation (Java) from XML file in a specific format
(similar to modern XForms format, but there is much less capabilities). You
can translate to that format from your via XSLT. Sources and docs are here:
http://xform.nanoworks.org . If you need I can give you some of my comments
for the library as we are using them about a year. :-)

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Peter V. Mikhalenko
Lead Developer
Sigent Interactive Agency