[WIKI-UPDATE] WoodyIntro Woody Fri Oct 31 19:00:04 2003

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Page: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=WoodyIntro , version: 7 on Fri Oct 31 17:10:48 2003 by BrunoDumon

- !!!Woody: a Cocoon Form Framework
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+ !!!Woody: Cocoon Forms
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+ Woody is the new form framework for Cocoon.
- Woody is a form framework for Cocoon. At the time of this writing, it is still
- in its rather early stages of development, but we're making quick progress.
- Cocoon already provides a number of form-handling solutions (XMLForm, FormValidatorAction and SimpleFormTransformer, Precept) so you may wonder what makes Woody different.
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+ Previously, Cocoon already provided a number of form-handling solutions (XMLForm, FormValidatorAction and SimpleFormTransformer, Precept) so you may wonder what makes Woody different.
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- Woody combines the ease of use of the FormValidatorAction and the power of XMLForm [[or at least that's its goal, Woody is still in its early days]. You'll be able to create many forms without writing one line of code. You don't even have to be a programmer to be able to create forms with Woody. But if you have additional needs, the hooks are there to extend it.
+ Woody combines the ease of use of the FormValidatorAction and the power of XMLForm. Forms can be created without any programming. Of course you'll need some controller code that passes on the request to the form, but using Cocoon's flowscript this is very easy. You can also use the provided actions to handle basic forms without any programming. And of course, if you need additional power, all the necessary hooks are there to extends or customise Woody.
- As for the presentation of the form (i.e. creating the actual HTML form), Woody provides a [WoodyTemplateTransformer]. This avoids the need to spend braincycles on designing XSLT's to handle Woody's XML output formats if you just want to create a quick form.
+ As for the presentation of the form (i.e. creating the actual HTML form), Woody provides a [WoodyTemplateTransformer]. This mechanism allows to reuse the same XSLT to style all your forms. Woody includes standard stylesheets which cover many needs.


Page: http://wiki.cocoondev.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Woody , version: 9 on Fri Oct 31 17:12:55 2003 by BrunoDumon

- !!!Woody: a form framework for Cocoon
+ !!!Woody: Cocoon Forms
- Woody can be found in the Cocoon 2.1 CVS repository where it resides in its own block. The Woody samples are part of the "Block Samples", or go directly to http://localhost:8888/samples/woody/ to view them.
+ Woody is introduced starting from Cocoon 2.1. However, it is under very active development and the latest CVS versions might provide many advantages. The Woody samples are part of the "Block Samples", or go directly to http://localhost:8888/samples/woody/ to view them.