Comments on: XForms: binding to an optional element http://dubinko.info/blog/2010/01/20/xforms-binding/ From an XML geek, a reader, a writer, a connector, a man of the people (says keep hope alive) Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alessandro Vernet http://dubinko.info/blog/2010/01/20/xforms-binding/comment-page-1/#comment-4779 Alessandro Vernet Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:08:55 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/?p=782#comment-4779 Hi Micah, One way (workaround?) to deal with this is to set the value of the element to empty when user select "default" in the select1. When doing the submission, before doing the xforms:send, set a flag in some other instance, and after the xforms:send, reset that flag. Define an xforms:bind that makes the element you want to remove non-relevant if the flag is set and its value is empty. This will make the element temporarily non-relevant just when the submission is done. This way the element won't be sent to the service you call, without impacting the controls. Alex Hi Micah,

One way (workaround?) to deal with this is to set the value of the element to empty when user select “default” in the select1. When doing the submission, before doing the xforms:send, set a flag in some other instance, and after the xforms:send, reset that flag. Define an xforms:bind that makes the element you want to remove non-relevant if the flag is set and its value is empty. This will make the element temporarily non-relevant just when the submission is done. This way the element won’t be sent to the service you call, without impacting the controls.

Alex

]]> By: Philip Fennell http://dubinko.info/blog/2010/01/20/xforms-binding/comment-page-1/#comment-4771 Philip Fennell Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:01:25 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/?p=782#comment-4771 Micah, No I don't think there are any solutions in 1.1. I raised this issue three years ago on the www-forms mailing list . I was editing styles for SVG with XForms where the exact same issue occurs for style properties. For example, the absence of font-weight is the same as font-weight='normal', but when it's absent it is not relevant! Have a look at the e-mail thread, it may be of use. Micah,

No I don’t think there are any solutions in 1.1. I raised this issue three years ago on the www-forms mailing list . I was editing styles for SVG with XForms where the exact same issue occurs for style properties. For example, the absence of font-weight is the same as font-weight=’normal’, but when it’s absent it is not relevant!

Have a look at the e-mail thread, it may be of use.

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