Pre-filling form on fragment basis

[AmbikaM]

hi...

I made a process for pre-filling a form. The steps included: getting data from database in an XML, applying XSLT and rendering a PDF form.

XSLT is used to avoid the dependence of the process on a form.

Now, the scenario is changed, the data to be pre-filled i.e. the XML will be generated from a webservice on fragments basis which implies if a form has 20 fragments, 20 XML's will be generated. (Hope, I made myself clear!!!!!!)

I thought of using XSL again for making one XML for pre-filling data. But XSLT takes one XML as an input.

Can anyone suggest me, should I make one XSL for the form or should I make XSL's as per fragments. Next, how could I merge all these XMLs to generate one XML for pre-filling.?

Please, also suggest me, if there is any other workaround for this scenario?

Thanks and Regards,

Ambika Mittal

[HowardTreisman]

Hi Ambika

I'm not sure about your exact scenario, but you could try XQuery intead of XPath.

Info here:

http://avoka.dnsalias.com/confluence/display/Public/Transforming+XML+Documents

http://www.avoka.com/blog/?s=xquery

and http://avoka.dnsalias.com/confluence/display/Public/XQuery+DSC

Download here:http://www.avoka.com/avoka/escomponents.shtml

XQuery is quite a lot more powerful than XSLT (in my opinion).

In addition, our implementation allows you to merge multiple XML documents together.

Please contact info@avoka.com if you have any problems...

Howard