Search XML with HTML Form

Hello,

I have an extremely new user to XML and XSL, and I would like to know
how to search XML data via a input form in HTML, and have the results
displayed in HTML.

If anyone has code that can do that, could you please post the relevant
files. I have searched the internet for a while now, and have been
completely unsuccessful. I would like to do it using javascript in my
XSL file if possible, or using CGI script to search the XML file and
display the results.

Any help would be much appriciated. Thanks a lot!

Zakhir

zakhirn@gmail.com

wrote:
...
> I have an extremely new user to XML and XSL, and I would like to know
> how to search XML data via a input form in HTML, and have the results
> displayed in HTML.
>
> If anyone has code ..

Will 'Klingon' do?

>...that can do that, could you please post the relevant
> files. I have searched the internet for a while now,

*

>...and have been
> completely unsuccessful. I would like to do it using javascript

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript>

>..in my XSL file if possible, or using CGI ..

<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi>

>...script to search the XML file and
> display the results.
>
> Any help would be much appriciated.

Try the people who might deal with the languages you
requested (this is a usenet newsgroup for the *Java*
programming langauge) but you might help them
to help you by ..
* mentioning the search term used.

Andrew T.

Thommo wrote:

> Try the people who might deal with the languages you
> requested (this is a usenet newsgroup for the *Java*
> programming langauge)

....D'Ohhhhh!

(embarrassed grin) Just popped by, and forgot where I
was. My deepest apologies to the OP, and for the waste
of bandwidth..

Andrew T.

wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an extremely new user to XML and XSL, and I would like to know
> how to search XML data

You need an XML search engine. There are many available, from little
free hand-made ones, right up to multi-million dollar ones for big
corporations.

> via a input form in HTML, and have the results displayed in HTML.

How you gather the user's query, and how you display the results
can be done a gazillion different ways, but a common one is:

a) normal HTML <input> in a form
b) data is sent to a script
c) script checks query for acceptability and either rejects query
or passes it to search engine
d) search engine returns results, either in HTML, or XML, or some
other format (eg TAB-delimited text)
e) script translates the search-engine output into HTML and sends
the result back to the user's browser.

> If anyone has code that can do that, could you please post the relevant
> files. I have searched the internet for a while now, and have been
> completely unsuccessful. I would like to do it using javascript in my
> XSL file if possible, or using CGI script to search the XML file and
> display the results.

I don't see what Javascript in an XSL file would have to do with it.

If you want to invent your own, and it's just on a single file with
minimal markup, you could just use grep in your script. But it won't
be as reliable as using an XML-compliant search tool.

///Peter
--
XML FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/

Peter Flynn wrote:
> You need an XML search engine.

Or an XPath, XSLT, or XQuery implementation, and code to convert your
form input into the appropriate operation. (I'd suggest the latter two
since they also cover formatting the data you've found.)


>>I would like to do it using javascript in my
>> XSL file if possible

If you're already using XSLT, you've already got the basic tools you
need, except for the step that turns the form input into an appropriate
stylesheet.

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