- From: Victor <engmark-usenet@orakel.ntnu.no>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:04:39 +0200
- To: www-forms@w3.org
Mark Birbeck wrote: > Hi Victor, > > >>I am trying to get the possible choices for a select1 statement >>from one instance, and the actual values of the selects from a >>different instance. The problem is, in Chiba, the latter is >>ignored, and all select boxes show only the first alternative. > > > There are three problems here. The first is that in your code you have > nested the second xf:bind within the first: > > >><xf:bind id="job-bind" nodeset="job"> >> <xf:bind id="jobResult-bind" nodeset="result"/> > > > (I assume there is a closing </xf:bind> that you have snipped. If there > isn't, then this is invalid XML anyway, all of the following is irrelevant, > and you just need to fix your mark-up be stopping this being a nested bind!) The example is working, valid XForms. See the reply to Susan Borgrink. > Nested binds *are* allowed, but the nodeset of the nested bind you have > specified would be: > > job/result > > which I assume is not what you want. That is exactly what I want. > The second problem is that a nested bind is supposed to iterate over the > nodeset produced by its parent, and this causes problems if you try to label > the nested bind. For example, if you have: *snip* This works in Chiba, with the only exception of select statements. > However, even if you sort this out, not all implementations will behave as > you expect - the third problem! - since the exact behaviour of an > xf:select(1) that takes its selection choices from one instance and places > the result in another is still being debated on the Working Group. Our > formsPlayer implementation does allow this, but we did have to a little > shuffling to make this work, so the WG is just trying to ensure that the > current implementations are all agreed on how it should be done. What I do not understand here is the part of " an xf:select(1) that takes its selection choices from one instance and places the result in another". Would anyone want to fetch the choices from the input/output file, according to some "selected" attribute? That would be redundant in the extreme. I'm sorry to say that fP already has been evaluated (albeit only a short time) and discarded as an option for our project since it seems unable to display the data in an orderly table. While Chiba looks like http://vengmark.home.cern.ch/vengmark/moi/screenshots/chiba.png after only minimal CSS editing, fP looks like http://vengmark.home.cern.ch/vengmark/moi/screenshots/formsplayer.png. If you can provide me with an example of an fP XForms document which looks more like the Chiba example, I would be happy to re-evaluate your product. -- Victor
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