RE: Binding to nodes that do not exist

Mark,

thank you.

It shouldn't but it does, in fact, in my XForms Navigator (Novell, may
be in advance :)

What kind of failure (error/exception ...) should occur, according to
you ?

Regards, vinzo.

Le vendredi 09 septembre 2005 à 11:16 +0100, Mark Birbeck a écrit :

> Vince,
> 
> > <xf:group ref="if(string-length(name(/path/to/the/node)) > 0, /null, .)">
> >  <xf:trigger>
> >       <xf:label>
> >           Add New
> >       </xf:label>
> >  </xf:trigger>
> > </xf:group>
> >
> > where /null is a node that never exists.
> >
> > It´s not very nice but ... it works.
>  
> Unfortunately, it shouldn't work :)
> The if() function takes parameters of strings, and also returns a string. So
> your if() function will straight away fail (or rather, should) since you are
> passing in nodes. However, given that most people assume as you have done
> that it *should* take and return a node, it's obviously an unnecessary
> limitation, and takes nothing to implement in the way you have described. We
> raised exactly this issue a little while ago on the XForms WG, after two of
> us here made exactly the same mistake as you and were annoyed to find that
> it didn't work. The point has been accepted, and the debate is whether to
> make a change to the if() function, or to add a new function that is more
> general.
> 
> One other point is that you don't need the xf:group that you have put in,
> since you can just put the @ref straight onto the xf:trigger.
> 
> So returning to the original question, if we had a customer node that
> contains a list of customers, we could control the xf:trigger like this:
> 
>   <xf:group ref="customers">
>     <xf:repeat nodeset="customer">
>       ...
>     </xf:repeat>
> 
>     <xf:trigger ref=".[not(*)]">
>       <xf:label>Add Item</xf:label>
>     </xf:trigger>
>   </xf:group>
> 
> Rather than trying to manipulate the empty nodeset, we test whether the
> parent has any children. In most cases this should work.
> 
> Regards,
>  
> Mark
> 
> 
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