RE: [XForms] ID/IDREF relationships in XML instances

Andrew

Thanks. 

Well, there is a schema, and I take your point about the value of @id. However, given that all I'm actually doing is attempting to establish that one attribute in one part of a XML structure has the same value as another attribute in another part of a XML structure, I'm not sure that either point help directly. In fact, I'm not really making use of the fact the two attributes are of type xsd:id and xsd:idref, am I?

I just wondered if anyone thinks that :

<xfm:repeat nodeset="person" id="people">
	<!-*person details here*-->
	<xfm:group id="address" 
	ref="../address[@id = ../person[index('people')]/address/address_id]">
	<!-*Address here-->
	</xsf:group>
</xfm:repeat>

ought, theoretically to work. 

Specifically, can I use index() to return the position of the current person node in the nodeset generated by the xfm:repeat?

If not, maybe I need to take a quite different approach to the problem?

All the best

Mark

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From: AndrewWatt2001@aol.com [mailto:AndrewWatt2001@aol.com]
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Subject: Re: [XForms] ID/IDREF relationships in XML instances


In a message dated 18/11/2002 13:57:24 GMT Standard Time, MSeaborne@origoservices.com writes:



    <person id="1">
        <forenames>Harold</forenames>
        <surname>Biggs</surname>
        <address address_id="c"/>
    </person>

There can be more than one <person>, more than one <address> and more than one person/@address_id can point to one address/@id.


Mark,

Your problem may be totally unrelated but as I read through your code the first thing that struck me is that you are using an illegal value for the id attribute on the <person> element.

The value of an ID attribute may not start with a numeric character. So id="1" is illegal.

Secondly, the fact that an attribute has the name "id" does not automatically make it an ID attribute. There needs to be a DTD/schema which states that. You don't state whether such a DTD/schema exists.

Either or both of those possible problems would stop an XML processor treating your code as if it had a legal ID attribute present.

I hope that helps a little.

Andrew Watt 
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Received on Monday, 18 November 2002 09:35:14 UTC