How To Save Form Data

Question

Hello experts, champions and everyone else
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I need to save a lot of data from HTML input elements that are generated/rendered using the APEX_ITEM API. eg TEXT, RADIOGROUP, LOV, HIDDEN etc
How is it posible to pass an array to my on-deman application process please?
For each element, I have access to name="f01", name="f02", ... fnn and corresponding id-attributes id="myItem_123_myTag", id="myItem_345_myTag"
... just to elaborate further
<input type="text" name="f01" id="myItem_123_myTag" value="value 1" />
<input type="text" name="f02" id="myItem_345_myTag" value="value 2" />
<input type="text" name="f50" id="myItem_999_myTag" value="abc etc" />
where n is equal to or less than 50; 123, 345 & 999 are my database primary keys and the are always numeric values.
After massaging (tokenize, getElementById etc) the data, I would have either a resultant array of:
myArray("f01", 123)
myArray("f02", 345)
myArray("f50", 999)
or
myArray(123, "value 1")
myArray(345, "value 2")
myArray(999, "abc etc")
at disposal, to throw at the on-demand process.
[unfortunately, fnn's are not known in advance - that is, sometimes I'd have f01-f10 and sometimes, f01-f20]
On the receiving end, in the on-demand process I would have a table records to accept the values from the array.
Please advise how this can be achieved?
TIA
Hien

Answer 1

Hi Carl,
I am trying to populate a collection using the AJAX builtins. The data are passed to collection just fine.
However, I notice that data in a TEXTAREA, the "&" (ampersand), ">" (greater than), or less than ("<") symbols are converted to & amp;, & gt;, & lt; , respectively.
Is there a way to prevent those symbols from being converted??? I need to save and preserve data in their original form. ie. a & is saved in the database as &, not & amp; -- is this possible?
Thanks for your help
Hien
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