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[Wouter Bolsterlee <uws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Op donderdag 25-02-2010 om 19:03 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Sander
van Schouwenburg (Sandworm):
> It is not possible to have several forms with just one submit button.
> Normally you wouldn't need this, but there are situations where this
> would be very useful.
> 
> One such situation is this: Suppose you have some element with all
> kinds
> of annotations, and all those annotations can be in multiple
> languages.
> And you want to have one form with the element plus all those
> annotations in all languages. You could make one form and manually add
> controls for all languages and give them unique and meaningful id's,
> and
> during processing you reconstruct the elements from the id's. But this
> is very cumbersome. It would be much better to create one form for
> each
> language, and have all forms combined into a single form with one
> submit
> button.
> 
> One way is modifying the renderer so that it doesn't render the actual
> <form> element, then render all the forms and manually enclose them
> with
> a <form> element. But you still have the problem that the names should
> be unique in the whole form node, and the id's should even be unique
> in
> the whole document. 

Fwiw, isn't this what fieldsets + a simple factory function could be
used for?

    — Wouter

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