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drobar
Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:16:31 PM

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I need to create a bunch of tables for various product categories in my site.

I don't want to have the users create static HTML tables in the RTE, though. Rather, I'd like to have a "grid" dataType that simply stores content in discrete cells and outputs xml. Then I can parse the grid's content with xslt to generate the html tables (or ULs, or whatever) programatically.

I don't need to have column or row spans, nor specify column widths or anything like that. This would be a very simple grid of cells the user can type text and values into.

The "grid" might have a few columns and rows, or 20 columns and 50 rows, depending on the product category.


Has anyone created anything like this?

cheers, and thanks,
doug.
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bootnumlock
Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:26:30 PM

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hey, i like the sound of this one... and could possibly find a use for it myself...or just add it to the bullpen of marketable things for all the free websites i end up doing for my wife and all here organizations :)

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neehouse
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:39:10 AM

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At one point I toyed with the idea of having a sub-doc type approach with this same idea. It never materialized though..

I was thinking about it for things like comments, where having 50 comments listed below a page was kind-of annoying.

Not sure how feasible it is though.
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