Hi Mark,

The other pages on the site are not broken. I appreciate your attempt
to identify an underlying flaw, but that is not the case here, and I am
aware of the vagaries of html parsing (which is why I leave it in the
capable hands of HTML::FillInForm).

My question is how do I create a Apache2::Filter "object" to pass into
lookup_uri() when all the filter documentation i've seen suggests that
filters are subroutines. I'd love to be able to just pass in a
subroutine as the second argument to lookup_uri, but none of the
documentation suggests that as the way to go.

- Stephen

Mark Hedges wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Stephen Howard wrote:
>
>  
>> I have a form validator PerlResponseHandler (using
>> Data::FormValidator) that needs to repopulate a form upon
>> failure. Problem is, the original form is not generated
>> by the handler, but by other pages on the site. My
>> thinking is that I ought to be able to do a lookup_uri and
>> pass it a filter that can repopulate the html correctly,
>> but the online docs for filters is failing me. The
>> lookup_uri documentation says that it takes an
>> Apache2::Filter object, but nowhere can I find information
>> on how to create one of these. Whatever filter I build
>> I'll need to be able to pass into it data specific to the
>> parent request in order to repopulate the html form
>> correctly. How do I do this?
>>  
>
> Have you considered fixing the "other pages on the site"?
>
> Pattern-matching HTML that will then be subject to change by
> other people on these "other pages" is going to drive you
> crazy. Why not just make the forms do what they're supposed
> to do?
>
> Mark
>