- From: John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 09:23:49 -0700
- To: Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com>
- Cc: xforms <www-forms@w3.org>, www-forms-request@w3.org
- Message-ID: <OF898D3795.613AD370-ON88257731.00598109-88257731.005A14F8@ca.ibm.com>
Hi Jabba, Rather than xsi:type, you could use <bind nodeset="limiteValidite" type="date"/> <!-- assumes xforms is default namespace --> or <xforms:bind nodeset="limiteValidite" type="xforms:date"/> <!-- if xforms namespace is not the default --> You could also use xsi:type="xforms:date" as well, but it's less practical because it assumes the schema for your instance data knows about xforms:date, which may be OK for the client-side but perhaps not server-side validation of the result. In any case, the point of the xforms-namespaced datatypes in Section 5 of the spec is to account for the fact that XML schema is about the finished product, whereas XForms is about the fill experience. It may have been OK for XML schema to leave empty string out of the lexical space of dates, integers and so forth, but it's not really OK for describing types used during interaction with the end-user providing the data. Any time you need a basic datatype from XML schema, consider using its XForms equivalent. Then, if you do need to make the data required to fill, you can use the XForms "required" model item property to express that necessity. Cheers, John M. Boyer, Ph.D. STSM, Lotus Forms Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software IBM Victoria Software Lab E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer Blog RSS feed: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/rss/JohnBoyer?flavor=rssdw From: Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@gmail.com> To: xforms <www-forms@w3.org> Date: 05/27/2010 05:36 PM Subject: making an xsd:date field optional Hi, I have a form with an input field which asks for a date (using xsd:date). However, if it's left empty, the form cannot be sent. How to make it optional? Here is what I have: Model part: <limiteValidite xsi:type="xsd:date" /> Body part: <xforms:input ref="/Nouvelle/limiteValidite"> <xforms:label>Date limite de la validite : </xforms:label> <xforms:message level="ephemeral" ev:event="DOMFocusIn">Saisissez une date.</xforms:message> </xforms:input> Thanks, Laszlo
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