[oXygen-user] [OXYGEN-9493] Load external data into form control?

[Scott Prentice]

Thanks, Radu!

That looks like an interesting solution .. will give it a whirl.

...scott


On 10/18/23 8:33 PM, Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu) wrote:
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> If you just configure using the CSS a combo box to edit the values of 
> an attribute, by default those values will be gathered either from the 
> DTDs (if you have defined a choice of values for the attribute in the 
> DTDs) or from our content completion configuration file which can use 
> XSLT to gather values from another location. Maybe this blog post by 
> my colleague Alex will help:
>
> https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/controlledAttributeValues2.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Radu
>
> Radu Coravu
> Oxygen XML Editor
> On 10/19/23 03:06, Scott Prentice wrote:
>>
>> I'm refining some metadata form controls for a custom framework, and 
>> it would be ideal if I was able to load the values and labels for a 
>> combobox from an external file (XML or preferably, JSON) rather than 
>> hard-coding these values into the CSS. It seems that this may be 
>> possible with xpath_eval(). Is anyone aware of any examples of this, 
>> or am I heading down a rabbit hole?
>>
>> I'll keep poking at this, but thought I'd see if anyone had thoughts 
>> on this effort.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> ...scott
>>
>>
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