Javascript and HTMLDB_COLLECTION

Question

Is there any possible way to reference the c001, c002, .... items from a collection created in a PL/SQL process?
You can reference items from a table, like document.wwv_flow.f01[0].value, but I can not find anything about accessing collections.
I would like to edit the collection data from some javascript functions rather than PL/SQL statements
-Mux

Answer 1

Mux,
If you want to reference something in javascript you need to get it on the page. Creating a collection only puts the data into a table within the database. If you want to get it on a page, I recommend creating a report on the collection. If you don't want to display any of the collection you can use a div tag and set the display:none (look at a hide/show region for the syntax).
So, create a region template that doesn't show (using a div tag <div style="display:none"> or whatever convention you like).
Create a report of your collection using that template. The results of the report will be on the page but not visible. Now, to actually reference this data it will need to be referencable. You could make each item a text item or hidden item (it won't matter because it won't show anyway). I would probably use the apex_item.hidden API to create the items, that way you can give every item a unique ID.
If this isn't enough detail, let me know and I'll post a query for you.
Anton