Drag and Drop

> I need to associate one identifiable thing with the ID of one or  
> more others obtained from a query submission. Right now I pop up a  
> query, show the results in a table within that pop-up, let the user  
> select an item, and then insert its ID into the main XML instance  
> before I close the pop-up.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to use a drag and drop approach for this? My  
> boss is jealous of the sexy JavaScript-library UIs that have this  
> ability and is considering using a pure JavaScript-library approach  
> instead of XForms (especially since our goal is to create a generic,  
> model-driven but user-customizable form--I should probably talk to  
> Erik about whether XForms is really the right answer for this). We  
> have a couple of new people on staff that probably know JavaScript  
> well enough to pull that off.
>
> I'm thinking it may be possible to use one of these libraries with  
> XForms to allow drag and drop, but I don't know how to integrate the  
> two. Has anyone done this before?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jim
>
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> Jim,
>
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Jim Logan wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking it may be possible to use one of these libraries with
>> XForms to allow drag and drop, but I don't know how to integrate the
>> two. Has anyone done this before?
>
> How do you see the interface working, if DnD was used in your case to
> select a value?