Fellow monks,
I have a problem regarding XML::LibXML, another great API by
Matts.
I have an xml document like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE page SYSTEM "entities.dtd">
<form>
<method>POST</method>
<action>/cgi/process.cgi</action
<input>
<type>text</type>
<name>name1</name>
<required>0</required>
<value></value>
<comment>This field is not required.</comment>
</input>
<input>
<type>text</type>
<name>name3</name>
<required>1</required>
<value></value>
<comment>Put three words here!</comment>
<test>
my @tmp = split(/\ /, shift());
return 1 if ( $#tmp == 2 );
return 0;
</test>
</input>
</form>
The XML above creates a web form through the use of XSLT. The little bit of perl-code is stuffed through ev'l into a closure and the value of the CGI::param("name3") is put into that routine. If 0 returns we show the form again, if 1 returns we continue.
To be nice and informatife, I'd like to tell the user he/she is a stupid user. But I also like to store into my DOM the values to user already submitted. And I want to add another branch to the
<form> trunk, holding information on why they failed.
I've tried _a lot_ in adding childs, nodes, childnodes, textchilds, you name it, but I just can't seem to get it done propperly.
I now have a hack, where I do:
$string = $dom->toString;
$string =~ s/<\/form>//gim;
$string .= "<info><failure>blah</failure></info>\n</form>\n";
$dom = $parser->parse_string($string);
This cannot be the purpose of libXML, and it surely is pretty expensive....
Er formait hyarya.
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