- From: Roland Merrick <roland_merrick@uk.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:28:24 +0100
- To: <rob.bull@blackdog.co.uk>
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org
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Greetings Rob, 'cos there is an XPath function to help you, e.g.
ref="instance('x')/mystuff". The default for instance() is the first one
in the model in document order.
Regards, Roland
"Robert Bull" <rob.bull@blackdog.co.uk>
22/10/2004 16:20
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RE: selection="open" attribute on a selectOne element
Greetings Roland,
No, I wasn't aware of that.
How then does a submission element refer to an instance; as far as I can
see the submission has a reference which could be (say) //root. If the
submission is a child of a model with only one instance, that can only
point to one node, but what if the model has two instances with //root
nodes?
In fact dipping into the spec at 2.4 "form controls should specify which
model element contains the instance data to which they bind. This is
accomplished through a model attribute that is part of the binding
attributes". Again if the model contains multiple instances, how are the
bindings to be specified without model= and instance= attributes?
Regards
Rob
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-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Merrick [mailto:roland_merrick@uk.ibm.com]
Sent: 22 October 2004 15:53
To: rob.bull@blackdog.co.uk
Cc: www-forms@w3.org; www-forms-request@w3.org
Subject: RE: selection="open" attribute on a selectOne element
Greetings, if you are using as old a version of the spec as you indicate
you may not realise that in the latest version you are allowed to have
multiple instance elements in a single model. So yes, two instances, but
that no longer requires two models.
Regards, Roland
"Robert Bull" <rob.bull@blackdog.co.uk>
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22/10/2004 15:12
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RE: selection="open" attribute on a selectOne element
Mark,
what is the advantage of using a single model in this scenario. Surely
allowing the select1 and the itemset to utilise different models permits
the gathering of data from multiple sources to be serialised for one
submission? How could that be achieved if the select1 and the itemset have
to be from one model?
Using different models seems to be supported in FormsPlayer 1, and gives a
very flexible architecture.
Regards
Rob
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From: www-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org]On Behalf
Of Durnell, Carryl
Sent: 22 October 2004 15:01
To: Mark Birbeck
Cc: www-forms@w3.org
Subject: RE: selection="open" attribute on a selectOne element
Thanks for that - I'll look into changing it to only use one model if I
can, as I can't see anything else wrong with it.
From: Mark Birbeck [mailto:mark.birbeck@x-port.net]
Sent: 21 October 2004 17:39
To: 'Durnell, Carryl'
Cc: www-forms@w3.org
Subject: RE: selection="open" attribute on a selectOne element
Carryl,
Wow! I believe that's now a collectors' item ;)
But on your general point, yes @selection="open" should work the way you
describe.
Mark
PS There is some ambiguity as to whether you should be allowed to use a
different model on the xf:itemset than on the xf:select1. The consensus at
the moment is that they should not be from different models, so watch out
there, too.
Mark Birbeck
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-----Original Message-----
From: Durnell, Carryl [mailto:Carryl.Durnell@logicacmg.com]
Sent: 21 October 2004 16:33
To: Mark Birbeck
Cc: www-forms@w3.org
Subject: RE: selection="open" attribute on a selectOne element
Hi Mark,
We are using quite an old implementation - the "Working Draft 18 January
2002" version, which would explain the use of deprecated tags. However,
this version still describes the use of this attribute, so I thought it
should work!
Cheers,
Carryl
From: Mark Birbeck [mailto:mark.birbeck@x-port.net]
Sent: 21 October 2004 16:24
To: 'Durnell, Carryl'
Cc: www-forms@w3.org
Subject: RE: selection="open" attribute on a selectOne element
Carryl,
<selectOne> had its name changed a very long time ago to <select1>, and
<caption> is now <label> ... so I think the first question is what
implementation are you using?
Regards,
Mark
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From: www-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Durnell, Carryl
Sent: 21 October 2004 15:59
To: www-forms@w3.org
Subject: selection="open" attribute on a selectOne element
Hi,
I'm trying to get a field that shows a value pulled from the database, but
then allows the user to either accept this value, or input a new value - I
had understood this was possible using the selection="open" attribute on a
selectOne element, but can't get it to work. The field displays the value
pulled from the database, but doesn't allow me to input an alternative
value.
It could be that I am merely missing some code to handle the input
correctly, or something else, I'm not sure - see code snippet below:
<xf:selectOne selectUI="menu" ref="/data/xmit_num" model="pagedata"
id="LPStoPSXmitNum" selection="open">
<xf:itemset nodeset="//configset/configitem"
model="existingconfig">
<xf:caption ref="lps_to_ps_xmit_num"/>
<xf:value ref="lps_to_ps_xmit_num"/>
</xf:itemset>
</xf:selectOne>
Any and all advice gratefully received!
Carryl
Carryl Durnell
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