RE: How does Xforms handle CDATA?

Ah well, it looks like the latest Moz XPI has a bug/"feature" then.

Chiba seems to handle it properly though...

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-forms-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Landwehr
> Sent: 20 April 2006 07:36
> To: Flinton Adam
> Cc: www-forms@w3.org
> Subject: Re: How does Xforms handle CDATA?
> 
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> The short answer is yes :)
> 
> The XPath datamodel does not have a separate node type for 
> CDATA. The CDATA and the Text nodes both represent textual 
> data and have to be treated in the same way. The XPath 
> datamodel is always normalized and character data is always 
> merged (when siblings). See also 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-Text-Nodes
> 
> Best regards,
> David
> 
> Flinton Adam wrote:
> > If I have an element such as:
> >
> > <text><![CDATA[Some<strong> StoryBoard text goes here test text 
> > </strong>complete <u>with all</u> <em>sorts of markup</em><br />]]> 
> > </text>
> >
> > In an instance, I would like to be able to get that text into a 
> > textarea.
> >
> > Such as:
> >
> > <xforms:textarea class="richtext" ref="narative/text/text()" >
> >                                 <xforms:label />
> >                                 <xforms:hint>Where the 
> Storyboard text 
> > goes</xforms:hint>
> >                             </xforms:textarea>
> >
> >
> > Will/Should XForms return me the content of the text element 
> > (including the cdata)?
> >
> >
> > Adam
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