RE: XPath based context and filtering for submission?

The use case is to allow the user to select a set of items from a
repeated list and submit the identifiers of the selected items.

I'm quite open to any ideas about how to do this, but as it's such as
common use case, and doesn't have anything to do with presentation, it
does seem like something that XForms should tackle.  If somehow feels
like we're missing a slight separation in the submission code between
relevance and context.
Leigh.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason [mailto:jeacott@hardlight.com.au] 
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:26 PM
To: Klotz, Leigh
Cc: www-forms
Subject: Re: XPath based context and filtering for submission?

I think allowing an xslt or other arbitrary language filter is a much 
better option. xpath alone will never get you a formatted, human 
readable email message for example. I know it violates the declarative 
thing, but not all processing lends itself well to the declarative
model.

Jason.

Klotz, Leigh wrote:
> Itwouldbeniceif there were a way to filter a list of matching nodes to
> submit.
> 
> I would like to submit only the index numbers of items whose @selected
> attribute is true.
> 
> The present definition of submission/@ref uses the first nodeset rule,
> so you cannot just do
>   <submission
>
ref="instance('data')/lines/line[boolean-from-string(@selected)]/index"
> />
> Additionally, the ref attribute doesn't appear to be precise enough to
> specify what parts of the tree to submit and what parts to leave out.
> 
> Some simple XPath-based filtering syntax like that would be
attractive,
> though.
> 
> Here's one way to do it, using a control variable (set during
submission
> only) and a pair of bind elements, one to say the
> "/lines/line[boolean-from-string(@selected)]" part and another to say
> that "index" part. 
> 
> Can anybody think of a clever union expression to put in
submission/@ref
> that just does what I want?
> 
> <instance id="data">
>   <data xmlns="">
>     <lines>
>       <line selected="false">
>         <index>1</index>
>         <date>2006-01-01T00:00:00Z</date>
>         <name>A</name>
>         <text>...</text>
>       </line>
>       <line selected="false">
>         <index>2</index>
>         <date>2006-01-01T01:00:00Z</date>
>         <name>B</name>
>         <text>...</text>
>       </line>
>       <line selected="false">
>         <index>3</index>
>         <date>2006-01-01T02:00:00Z</date>
>         <name>C</name>
>         <text>...</text>
>       </line>
>      </lines>
>   </data>
> </instance>
> 
> <instance id="results">
>   <empty xmlns=""/>
> </instance>
> 
> <instance id="control">
>   <control xmlns="">
>     <selected>false</selected>
>   </control>
> </instance>
> 
> <bind nodeset="instance('data')lines/line/@selected"
type="xsd:boolean"
> />
> <bind nodeset="instance('control')/selected" type="xsd:boolean" />
> 
> <bind nodeset="instance('data')/lines/*[local-name(.)!='index']" 
>       relevant="not(boolean-from-string(instance('control')/selected))
> <bind nodeset="instance('data')/lines/line"
> 	relevant="not(boolean-from-string(instance('control')/selected))
> or boolean-from-string(@selected)"/>
> 
> <submission id="delete" action="/delete" ref="instance('data')"
> replace="instance" instance="results">
>    <setvalue ev:event="xforms-submit"
> ref="instance('control')/selected">true</setvalue>
>    <setvalue ev:event="xforms-submit-done"
> ref="instance('control')/selected">false</setvalue>
>    <setvalue ev:event="xforms-submit-error"
> ref="instance('control')/selected">false</setvalue>
> </submission>
> 
> <submit submission="delete">
>   <label>Delete</label>
> </submit>
> 
> <repeat id="lines" nodeset="lines/line">
>   <input ref="@selected">
>     <label class="columnHeader">X</label>
>   </input>
>   <output ref="date">
>     <label class="columnHeader">Date</label>
>   </output>
>   <output ref="name">
>     <label class="columnHeader">Name</label>
>   </output>
> </repeat>
> 
> <output ref="lines/line[index('lines')]/text">
>   <label>Text</label>
> </output>
> 
> 
>

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