Re: repeats

Not sure if this works with all implementations, but see the bottom of 
this page:
http://skimstone.x-port.net/node/339

Effectively, you define an origin="" attribute with an XPath to copy an 
empty node from.


Jason wrote:
> 
> Hi all, Today I decided it was time to upgrade the version of chiba I've 
> been using for my xforms only to find that its behaviour has changed. I 
> checked a few other implementations and they all seem to agree on this 
> point, so I'm totally confused.
> 
> up until now I've been using a trigger with something like:
>  <xforms:insert bind="bind_1" at="index('repeat_1')" position="after"/>
> 
> in order to allow form users to add items to lists. BUT if they remove 
> all the items from the list then this no longer works and I apparently 
> need a completely different button to get the first item on the list 
> again. Is this true? My existing copy of chiba just inserts, even if 
> there are currently no items in the list. how is this supposed to work? 
> how have people built real life forms to cope with this odd behaviour(imho)
> I've had another look at the w3c position for xforms 1.0 and it seems to 
> suggest that this behaviour is designed (unless the "homogeneous 
> collection" is actually meant to mean the collection that exists at form 
> startup including any implied nodes from binding lazily? )
> 
> ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/slice9.html#action-insert
> The homogeneous collection to be updated is determined by evaluating the 
> Node Set Binding. If the collection is empty, the insert action has no 
> effect.
> The rules for selecting the index are as follows:
> b) If the result is NaN, the insert appends to the end of the node-set.
> 
> c) If the resulting index is outside the valid range of the node-set, it 
> is replaced with either 1 or the size of the node-set, whichever is closer.
> 
> so how should a shopping cart for example actually be built?
> I want:
> add item
> remove item
> checkout
> 
> I dont want an append item for the case that there are none items, and I 
> really dont want to have to specially bother with the zero case (how is 
> this done anyway?).
> 
> what am I missing?
> 
> much lost
> Jason.
>

Received on Friday, 3 November 2006 06:58:39 UTC