"Russell Wyatt" <russellw_REMOVE_THIS_TO_REPLY_@ihs.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> I have an idea of what I want to do, but I'm not entirely sure how to do
it,
> whether it's a practical or good idea and which components to use. Maybe
> someone here can point me in the right direction.
>
> OK the objective is to invite our customers to examine the data we hold on
> their company and their company's products, make alterations (add, change,
> remove) and send it back to us for checking and submission to our
database.
>
> I have generated an xml document for each customer which I have saved into
a
> field in an SQL server table. I have created an xsl which lets me send a
> plain text formatted version to email to each customer. I was proposing to
> include a link on the email which will then take them to a WebForm
generated
> from the aforementioned Xml document ( I need pointers on how I can create
a
> UI to this document). This web form would allow them to edit their data
and
> add to it. When they submit the form the modified document (or a modified
> copy of the original document) would then be passed (probably via the sql
> table) to our product manager for checking. When checked the file would be
> processed into our database.
>
> Does that sound like a practical plan? What technologies, components, etc
> should I be using?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Russell Wyatt
>
>

"Paul Hatcher" <phatcher@spamless.cix.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Russell
>
> What you could do is design a set of classes that model the information in
> your XML document, using the XmlSerializer to inflate and persist your
> objecs to an from XML, e.g. you have a Customer class which has their
name,
> address, telephone etc.
>
> Then you can design web forms more easily that can manipulate the data and
> provide integrity checks etc, apart from that it sounds a good plan.
>
> Paul
>
> "Russell Wyatt" <russellw_REMOVE_THIS_TO_REPLY_@ihs.com.au> wrote in
message
> news:e$R7XqDHEHA.3556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Hello
> >
> > I have an idea of what I want to do, but I'm not entirely sure how to do
> it,
> > whether it's a practical or good idea and which components to use. Maybe
> > someone here can point me in the right direction.
> >
> > OK the objective is to invite our customers to examine the data we hold
on
> > their company and their company's products, make alterations (add,
change,
> > remove) and send it back to us for checking and submission to our
> database.
> >
> > I have generated an xml document for each customer which I have saved
into
> a
> > field in an SQL server table. I have created an xsl which lets me send a
> > plain text formatted version to email to each customer. I was proposing
to
> > include a link on the email which will then take them to a WebForm
> generated
> > from the aforementioned Xml document ( I need pointers on how I can
create
> a
> > UI to this document). This web form would allow them to edit their data
> and
> > add to it. When they submit the form the modified document (or a
modified
> > copy of the original document) would then be passed (probably via the
sql
> > table) to our product manager for checking. When checked the file would
be
> > processed into our database.
> >
> > Does that sound like a practical plan? What technologies, components,
etc
> > should I be using?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Russell Wyatt
> >
> >
>
>