RE: xforms:choose/if?

Hi Alex,

Yes, that technique does indeed work, but I wasn't keen to mention it
because it mixes up the UI and the model -- nice workaround though!

Just for your reference, there has been some discussion about allowing model
status events to be picked up in the model, so in a future version of XForms
you should be able to do something this:

  <xforms:bind id="eq0_bind" nodeset="instance('choose')/eq0"
    constraint="not(. = '0') or . = ''"
  >
    <xforms:dispatch ev:event="xforms-invalid" name="eq0_event"
      target="mymodel" />
  </xforms:bind>

That will save you having to create the 'dummy' UI controls if you want to
use this technique.

I'm sure you have done this, but I would suggest to anyone else that is
going to use this approach, that they place all of their 'dummy' controls
into a xf:group and hide that. Then in a future version of XForms that
allows for conditional events (or events directed to xf:bind statements) you
can easily locate the 'trampolines' and move them to the model.

However, I still prefer the script solution, since although it uses script,
it more closely resembles the logic of what will probably be the future
solution, namely conditional event handlers.

Regards,

Mark


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-forms-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Anokhin
> Sent: 01 April 2005 07:24
> To: Mark Birbeck
> Cc: www-forms@w3.org
> Subject: Re: xforms:choose/if?
> 
> 
> Mark Birbeck:
> > Alexander,
> > 
> > The only way you can do this *today* is with a little bit of script 
> > (see below).
> > 
> > For the future, some work has been done in XML Events 2 to provide 
> > conditional event handlers, which would do pretty much what 
> you want...
> 
> 
> If someone interested in, the way i choose to realize such 
> thing (thanx to Giovanni Motta for idea)
> 
> I've made an additional instance wich is contains one copy of 
> "count_result" for every condition, like this:
> <xforms:instance id="choose">
>    <data xmlns="">
>      <eq0>84</eq0>
>      <eq1>84</eq1>
>      <gt1>84</gt1>
>    </data>
> </xforms:instance>
> 
> ...add binds and event handlers:
> 
> <xforms:bind id="eq0_bind" nodeset="instance('choose')/eq0" 
> constraint="not(. = '0') or . = ''"/>
> <xforms:bind id="eq1_bind" nodeset="instance('choose')/eq1" 
> constraint="not(. = '1') or . = ''"/>
> <xforms:bind id="gt1_bind" nodeset="instance('choose')/gt1" 
> constraint="not(. &gt; '1') or . = ''"/>
> 
> <xforms:action ev:event="eq0_event">
>    <xforms:message level="modal">eq0</xforms:message>
> </xforms:action>
> 
> <xforms:action ev:event="eq1_event">
>    <xforms:message level="modal">eq1</xforms:message>
> </xforms:action>
> 
> <xforms:action ev:event="changed3">
>    <xforms:message level="modal">gt1</xforms:message>
> </xforms:action>
> 
> Finally the hidden controls for dispatch "xforms-invalid" event:
> 
> <xforms:input bind="eq0_bind" style="display:none;">
>      <xforms:dispatch ev:event="xforms-invalid" name="eq0_event" 
> target="mymodel"/>
> </xforms:input>
> 
> <xforms:input bind="eq1_bind" style="display:none;">
>      <xforms:dispatch ev:event="xforms-invalid" name="eq1_event" 
> target="mymodel"/>
> </xforms:input>
> 
> <xforms:input bind="gt1_bind" style="display:none;">
>      <xforms:dispatch ev:event="xforms-invalid" name="gt1_event" 
> target="mymodel"/>
> </xforms:input>
> 
> surely works on FormsPlayer 1.3.
> 
> --
> Alexander Anokhin
> AVTOVAZ JSC
> email: ava@vaz.ru
> icq: 123275798
> 
> 
>

Received on Sunday, 3 April 2005 22:42:07 UTC