RE: XForms: Bind value of attribute?

There are a couple of misspellings and other errors that might or might
not have been causing you problems.

You can use . instead of current(), and work in processors that don't
have current().
Also, I've also shown a way to do this without group or . or curent(),
by using a predicate directly on value, though of course you may want to
use group for other reasons.
I have attached an example that works when tested in Mozilla XForms 0.6.

Leigh.

-----Original Message-----
From: www-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Abishek Bellamkonda
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 10:25 PM
To: www-forms@w3.org
Subject: XForms: Bind value of attribute?


My scenario is like this, I have a model:
<data>
<Animals>
<Cat appearance="full" name="Cat 1" ><value>Red</value></Cat>
<Cat appearance="compact" name="Cat 2"><value>Green</value></Cat>
<Cat appearance="minimal" name="Cat 3"><value>Brown</value></Cat>
</Animals>
</data>


Now I want to display the cat colors like this:
I want full select1 for Cat1 (appearance = full), compact select1 for
Cat 2, and minimal select1 for Cat 3. Does xForms support like
xsl:attribute element or something? We can ref any element, but can we
do the same for attribute? I am currently doing like this, which works,
but I was wondering if there was a better way.

<xf:repeat nodeset="Animals/Cat">
<!-Show full -->
<xf:group nodeset="current()[@apprearance='full']">
<xf:select1 ref="value" appearance="full">
	<xf:label ref="../@name"/>
<xf:itemset nodeset="/data/Colors/data">
	  <xf:label ref="."/>
	  <xf:value ref="."/>
	</xf:itemset>
</xf:select1>
</xf:group>

<!-Show Minimal -->
<xf:group nodeset="current()[@apprearance='compact']">
<xf:select1 ref="value" appearance="compact">
	<xf:label ref="../@name"/>
<xf:itemset nodeset="/data/Colors/data">
	  <xf:label ref="."/>
	  <xf:value ref="."/>
	</xf:itemset>
</xf:select1>
</xf:group>

<!-Show Compact -->
<xf:group nodeset="current()[@apprearance='compact']">
<xf:select1 ref="value" appearance="compact">
	<xf:label ref="../@name"/>
<xf:itemset nodeset="/data/Colors/data">
	  <xf:label ref="."/>
	  <xf:value ref="."/>
	</xf:itemset>
</xf:select1>
</xf:group>

</xf:repeat>

With Regards,
Abi (Abishek Bellamkonda)
Senior Architect / Technology Specialist / Tech Lead
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