Can I???

[LisaW]

Hi - XML newbie here
Is there a way to surround HTML input boxes with XML tags to give more meaning
to the values submitted in those input boxes?

ie
<UserName>
<INPUT.....>
</UserName>

thanks in advance!

[Russell Jones]

You can do that, but I'm a little confused about the "more meaning" part of
your message. You already have id attributes for the input controls. What
are you trying to accomplish by adding the <UserName> tag that you don't
already have by naming the control "UserName"? e.g. <input type="textbox"
id="UserName">


"LisaW" <lisadisc@aol.com> wrote in message news:3a8148c4$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Hi - XML newbie here
> Is there a way to surround HTML input boxes with XML tags to give more
meaning
> to the values submitted in those input boxes?
>
> ie
> <UserName>
> <INPUT.....>
> </UserName>
>
> thanks in advance!

[LisaW]

Russell -
Think it would make life easier to know after a submit that a textbox is
an element of XML- here is how I'm using the id of inputs now:


I am developing ASP pages for a select group of users to do some serious
data entry.

I have all input boxes within tables - for instance:
Acct # | Beg Year Bal | End Year Bal
212 | <INPUT> | <INPUT>

There could be hundreds of controls per form.

At the moment I have the IDs of each input control created to give me an
indication of their row position, the Primary Key into the data and the column
name. for exampe an Input ID could be 212_BegYrBal_0

On submit I strip apart these lengthy names and create my own pseudo XML
<ITEM>
<ROW ID>
212
</ROW ID>
<RAW ID>
0
</RAW ID>
<COL>
BegYrBal
</COL>
<VALUE>
200000
</VALUE>
</ITEM>


from the pseudo XML - I can get the data into a recordset and then update/insert
the correct data into financial information system.




"Russell Jones" <arj1@northstate.net> wrote:
>You can do that, but I'm a little confused about the "more meaning" part
of
>your message. You already have id attributes for the input controls. What
>are you trying to accomplish by adding the <UserName> tag that you don't
>already have by naming the control "UserName"? e.g. <input type="textbox"
>id="UserName">
>
>
>"LisaW" <lisadisc@aol.com> wrote in message news:3a8148c4$1@news.devx.com...
>>
>> Hi - XML newbie here
>> Is there a way to surround HTML input boxes with XML tags to give more
>meaning
>> to the values submitted in those input boxes?
>>
>> ie
>> <UserName>
>> <INPUT.....>
>> </UserName>
>>
>> thanks in advance!
>
>