Do we need a <label class=" xforms-alert-inactive xforms-alert"> element for an xforms:output and how do can we prevent it to add extra spaces?

Hi,

When you use <xforms:output/> elements in a text, you get extra spaces
added that spoil your presentation if you want to use these as you would
use <xsl:value/> elements.

(See what happens after "62" and after "relax ng" in the capture
attached.)

This is because OrbeonForms generates <label/> elements with a classes
xforms-alert-inactive and xforms-alert after the output itself, such as
in:

<span id="xforms-element-10" class="xforms-control xforms-output">relax
ng</span><label class=" xforms-alert-inactive xforms-alert"
for="xforms-element-10"></label>

Is that really needed and is there a way to get rid of these <label/>
elements?

As a workaround, I have embedded these outputs in an element with a
specific class (outputOnly) and disabled the display of these <label/>
elements through this CSS definition:

.outputOnly > .xforms-alert-inactive {
    display: none;
}

Is there a better way to achieve that?

Thanks,

Eric

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Hmmm...

The answer to my question appears to just be to use a value attribute
instead of a ref attribute in xf:output!

Sorry for the noise.

Eric

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Eric,

On Jan 12, 2008 12:21 PM, Eric van der Vlist <[hidden email]> wrote:
> The answer to my question appears to just be to use a value attribute
> instead of a ref attribute in xf:output!

Yes, exactly, using "value" instead of "ref" works most of the time.
But sometimes it doesn't: for instance when the node your output is
bound to is a date, and you would like that date to be formatted
automatically.

What we would like to do is to always have a container element around
all the markup generated for a XForms element. This means that you
would have the alert for the xforms:output inside a span with a class
xforms-output, which would enable you to hide the alert with CSS,
without having to add your own span around the xforms:output.

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