Xml form generator

ytiddo wrote on Tuesday, December 15, 2009:

I’m just about done with the first release of my XML based form generator.
This form generator is designed to let you specify the fields of a ‘form’ using a simple XML markup, and generate a form in OpenEMR that behaves as you’d expect.

the output of this form generator is a directory of files, ready to be droped in openemr/interface/forms.

the HTML it outputs, the field types, and the look and feel is based on the putput of formscript.pl, and the ‘example2’ example form.

new dependancies:
to use this form generator, you must have XALAN installed, which comes with sun java 1.4, is free software, and is available on windows platforms.

using:

to use, write an XML file similar to one of the XML files shipped with the ‘application’, and run:

“make INFILE=myxmlfile.xml”

1> how do i get a windows user to test this?
2> what level of testing is required for oenemr to be satisfied enough to replace formscript.pl with this?

the forms generated output valid XHTML 1.1.

Justin Doiel

bradymiller wrote on Wednesday, December 16, 2009:

hey,

I’d announce it when done, and post it in the patches tracker.

Out of curiosity, why is this better than formscript.pl ? (especially since your now requiring a new depencency)

-brady