[xsl] Full Screen application to allow modification/entry of certain XML child node

["Richard Benzell" <richard_benzell at hotmail dot com>]

Questions with developing a “Full Screen” application to allow 
modification/entry of certain XML child node data.

    I am trying to develop an XSL application that takes a list of data 
obtained in an XML response from an external ERP database query.  My goal is 
to build a screen that has 1 to nnn screen lines of data, (not counting 
header/footer lines), corresponding to the number of items in a particular 
XML child node.  I want to present the users with the ability to alter text 
values, click checkboxes and select pull-down menu options, for each line.  
I want this to be done in a Full-Screen mode.

     Once the users enter the text, checkboxes and selection values for each 
line, I envision they would press the single “Submit” button on the screen 
bottom just Once.  This would take all the stuff the user entered/modified 
on any line, build an XML tree structure, and post it as an xmlstring value 
to a URL that is expecting that format.   The backend software at that URL 
will then update the ERP database with the changes the user made, based on 
the XML document that was just posted to it.

   So far, I’ve been able to build an XSL program that takes the original 
XML query response, builds a list on lines on the screen, and even shows 
input text fields on each line.  But I am perplexed as to how I can 
efficiently take 1 to nnn (where nnn could anywhere to 100+) text fields, 
build an XML structure and then do the URL post.    I’ve searched though 
various XSL archives and postings, but I cannot find a hint as to the 
appropriate way to do this.

   To build the input screen,  I suppose I could get XSL to loop through 
each element and generate text and check boxes with unique labels based on 
an incrementing loop counter.  And I suppose I could have the “submit” 
button initiate a program to build an xmlstring by “hard-coding” 
concatenations of various xml tags the text box values.  But it just seems 
to me that there must be a better and easier way to do this, that I just 
don't know about.

  Anyway, can anyone point me in the right direction, or provide tips, 
comments, or sample code showing how this task could best be tackled in 
XSL???

  And if someone knows of a site with Examples or FAQ’s regarding this XSL 
programming challenge, that would be great also.

  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Richard


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