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Re: XForm to update my XML files in the backend

Posted by Erik Bruchez on Apr 26, 2011; 2:16am
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/XForm-to-update-my-XML-files-in-the-backend-tp3472381p3474556.html

Hard to make a quick answer on this, but there are a few questions you
will have to answer:

* Whether you want/can use Form Builder. Your requirements may not fit
what Form Builder does out of the box. In other words, do you plan
write your app with XForms from scratch, or to leverage Form Builder
and Form Runner.

* What kind of storage you want. You mention storing XML files on the
server, but usually Orbeon Forms apps don't write "files" as such:
they store data in some kind of storage, such as the eXist XML
database.

-Erik

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Tinkerer <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to Orbeon Forms; my humble apologies for asking any stupid
> questions. I want to build a web app that allows users to submit info into a
> web-form that will update upto 4 different XML files in the backend (server
> side). These 4 XML files mimic a database and share some kind of a
> "relational" dependency. Since I am dealing with multiple XML/XSD files as
> my dB, I have settled for XFORMS and preferred Orbeon Forms for it's Form
> Builder Tool and it's ability to handle different browsers without the need
> of a plugin and the hope that I wouldn't need any Javascript/AJAX knowledge.
> My form must allow users an easy way to add, edit, delete elements in the
> back-end XML files as well as offer some kind of query and also display data
> from the XML if needed. My form would need to update different elements in
> the 4 back-end XML files. What is the best way to design this webapp. What
> will I need at a minimum? Are there any examples that you can point me to
> for the first version of my "XML editing" webapp. Thanks for any guidance.
>
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