Custom display of errors

> We have created a new example titled "Registration Form" that shows
> how to take control of how errors are displayed and handled, all this
> with standard XForms. See the attached screenshot and example
> description below.
>
> Errors in XForms can be styled with CSS, but not all cases can be
> handled just with CSS. For instance, CSS can't be used to control
> where error messages are displayed (next to the control, at the top of
> the page in a summary of all the errors), or to start displaying
> errors for a control only after the user started typing in that
> control.
>
> This example shows how you can implement custom error handling in
> XForms by adding annotations to the instance, using model item
> properties, and using <xforms:group> and <xforms:output> in the HTML
> to display errors in the HTML.
>
> Alex
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>
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> Alex,
>
> Where is that screenshot?
>
> On Dec 16, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>
>> We have created a new example titled "Registration Form" that shows
>> how to take control of how errors are displayed and handled, all this
>> with standard XForms. See the attached screenshot and example
>> description below.
>>
>> Errors in XForms can be styled with CSS, but not all cases can be
>> handled just with CSS. For instance, CSS can't be used to control
>> where error messages are displayed (next to the control, at the top of
>> the page in a summary of all the errors), or to start displaying
>> errors for a control only after the user started typing in that
>> control.
>>
>> This example shows how you can implement custom error handling in
>> XForms by adding annotations to the instance, using model item
>> properties, and using <xforms:group> and <xforms:output> in the HTML
>> to display errors in the HTML.
>>
>> Alex
>> --
>> Blog (XML, Web apps, Open Source): http://www.orbeon.com/blog/