Re: Schema for a survey data collection?

thank you...

I was at the bookstore today and saw a book titled _Applied XML Solutions_ by Marchal, ISBN 0-672-32054-1, that contains an XML-based application that conducts surveys. Not sure how good it is, but perhaps it is worth mentioning here.
- cb

Srini Venigalla <sriniv_at_netsetgo.com> wrote in message news:3B3931ED.F3B4AD28_at_netsetgo.com...
> Carlos Bromanski wrote:
>
> > What a great idea!
> > Is there any way for you to share more details of your implementation to
 the
> > newsgroup?
> > For example, what language is the application written in? How are the
 forms
> > rendered?
>
> Thanks..
> The Database used is DB2 UDB V7.1 The XML specs are stored as varchars in
 a
> table.
> A java servlet uses jdbc to retrieve the questions from the tables and
 merges
> them into a single XML tree.
> This tree is fed to Apache/Xerces XML parser to create an in-memory DOM
 object.
> The dom tree is walked using the recursive tree traversal technique(or
 Visitor
> Pattern of GoF). At each node, the node is processed using the
 Inline/SQL/Custom
> options.
>
> This expanded XML tree is then processed using an XSL stylesheet, using
> Apache/Xalan processor. The XSl Stylesheet is an externally maintained
 file,
> which actually specifies how each node in XML is rendered. Basically,
> XML+XSL=HTML.
>
> The HTML is written to the client to display the form.
>
> Unfortunately, I can not give you the actual code, due to the contractual
> obligations.
>
> HTH.
>
Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 01:32:50 CEST