[Info-vax] NONNUMLNG
Jeffrey H. Coffield
jeffrey at digitalsynergyinc.com
Mon Nov 23 18:43:57 EST 2009
Richard Maher wrote:
> For our upcoming Tier3Client Example I have a web-page with a "Selection
> Criteria" DIV on the left and an "Employee Details" DIV on the right. Once
> an individual Employee is located, my COBOL wants to use a $fao control
> string containing a plethora of HTML tags and FAO lexicals directives
> "<table><tr><td>Name:</td><td>!AS</td></tr></table> and so on. . .". The
> result is then injected into the destination div with "detailsDiv.innerHTML
> = myBloodyBigString;".
>
This is where I would use an Ajax call (from JQuery) to get the XML data
and let the client side build the table. This appears to be a case of
having the server need to know so much about the html. Take a look at
www.keepmeuptodate.net for examples of building HTML tables from XML data.
Jeff Coffield
www.digitalsynergyinc.com
www.keepmeuptodate.net
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