Populate MultiSelect Dojo box onLoad from XML data file

[Mimi Tam]

Hi,

I created a dijit.form.multiselect control and populated it with hardcoded data in the create.jspx - for testing.

That works fine. Now, I need to populate it with external XML data at onload time. How do I do that in create.jspx? Most materials I read on this subject either uses a json data file or an URI as data source. Furthermore, is there any applicable examples that I can follow?

In create.jspx, I have this:

    <div id="roo_material_couIds"> 
    <label for="_couIds_id">Materials:</label>
        <spring:bind path="couIds">               
            <form:select id="couIds" path="couIds">
						<form:option value="1">Material 1</form:option>
						<form:option value="2">Material 2</form:option>
						<form:option value="3">Material  3</form:option>
						<form:option value="4">Material 4</form:option>
</form:select>			
</spring:bind>	<script type="text/javascript"> Spring.addDecoration(new Spring.ElementDecoration({elementId : "couIds",
								widgetType : "dijit.form.MultiSelect", widgetAttrs : {required : true,overflow:scroll=yes
								trim : true, promptMessage : "Select Coupons", invalidMessage : ""}})) </script> 

Any info will be greatly appreciated.

[David Newton]

<foo>
  <c:forEach items="${bar} ...>
    <bar name="${bar.name}" />
  </c:forEach>
</foo>

JSP can create anything--it doesn't care. It's a (verbose) templating language. Set the contentType.

[David Newton]

Moving to JSP, as at this point the question has nothing to do with Spring.

Note that there are other ways to get XML other than a JSP, like serializing to XML.

[Mimi Tam]

Thank you, David.

Thank you for the suggestion as well. By "serializing to XML", did you mean to read from an XML file? Probably not.

I have a whole bunch of *jspx files written up via Spring Roo as the initial program structure and I thought to stick with the *.jspx files for Views would be an easier way out. Can you please elaborate a bit on how I can do this by "serializing to XML'?

Many Thanks...Mimi

[David Newton]

Mimi Tam wrote:By "serializing to XML", did you mean to read from an XML file? Probably not.

No, that'd be deserializing.

please elaborate a bit on how I can do this by "serializing to XML'?

http://www.google.com/search?q=java+%2Bserialize+to+xml

[Mimi Tam]

Yes, I thought so as well. Thank you very much for the link, David. It is very helpful.