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lazx

Form Builder Labels (xform:label) and XHTML rendering

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For a question that I am creating in form builder, some of the characters need to be bold, others need to be red - etc.

When trying to render some XHTML in an xforms:label, it is converted to text. Has there been any advances in rendering xhtml in labels since this thread: http://www.nabble.com/XHTML-in-labels-td11176889.html#a11176889

xforms:output works fine, but it would be nice to get this working with labels/hint/help/alert too.

Thank you.

Erik Bruchez

Re: Form Builder Labels (xform:label) and XHTML rendering

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Yes, the XForms engine supports HTML in labels (and help, hint,
alert), but Form Builder only handles plain text for those at the
moment.

-Erik

On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:17 PM, lazx wrote:

>
> For a question that I am creating in form builder, some of the
> characters
> need to be bold, others need to be red - etc.
>
> When trying to render some XHTML in an xforms:label, it is converted
> to
> text. Has there been any advances in rendering xhtml in labels
> since this
> thread: http://www.nabble.com/XHTML-in-labels-
> td11176889.html#a11176889
>
> xforms:output works fine, but it would be nice to get this working
> with
> labels/hint/help/alert too.
>
> Thank you.
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lazx

Re: Form Builder Labels (xform:label) and XHTML rendering

Hi Erik,

Thank you for your response!

Can the form runner (FR) environment render html in label/help/hint/alert?

For example, I have tried something like the following:

instance:
<html_label><xhtml:b>Bold text</xhtml:b></html_label>

form:
<label ref="saxon:serialize('$instance/html_label', 'html')"/>

but the form runner outputs the label as xml (or xhtml) - ie, the namespaces of the label are also shown, and the text is not bold.

Will have a better example + output for you tomorrow, just hoping you can maybe give me some pointers or see what I am doing wrong.

Thanks.

Erik Bruchez wrote

Yes, the XForms engine supports HTML in labels (and help, hint,
alert), but Form Builder only handles plain text for those at the
moment.

-Erik

On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:17 PM, lazx wrote:

>
> For a question that I am creating in form builder, some of the
> characters
> need to be bold, others need to be red - etc.
>
> When trying to render some XHTML in an xforms:label, it is converted
> to
> text. Has there been any advances in rendering xhtml in labels
> since this
> thread: http://www.nabble.com/XHTML-in-labels-
> td11176889.html#a11176889
>
> xforms:output works fine, but it would be nice to get this working
> with
> labels/hint/help/alert too.
>
> Thank you.
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Form-Builder-Labels-%28xform%3Alabel%29-and-XHTML-rendering-tp18285746p18285746.html
> Sent from the ObjectWeb OPS - Users mailing list archive at
> Nabble.com.

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: Re: Form Builder Labels (xform:label) and XHTML rendering

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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:53 PM, lazx <[hidden email]> wrote:
> instance:
> <html_label><xhtml:b>Bold text</xhtml:b></html_label>
>
> form:
> <label ref="saxon:serialize('$instance/html_label', 'html')"/>

You would need to have:

<xforms:label>
<xforms:output mediatype="text/html" ref="$instance/html_label"/>
</xforms:label>

Note that you can use this only if are editing the XForms that runs in
FR "by hand" (i.e. not with Form Buidler).

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Ronald van Kuijk-2

Re: Re: Form Builder Labels (xform:label) and XHTML rendering

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Wouldn't it be better if the builder supported assigning custom class
attributes to elements so they can be styled with CSS instead of supporting
html? Sounds 'oldschool' and not retro (yet ;-))

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Erik Bruchez

Re: Re: Re: Form Builder Labels (xform:label) and XHTML rendering

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Ronald,

What do you mean by "instead of supporting HTML"?

Supporting custom classes would be a possibility. At the moment you
can use control ids and the built-in control classes.

There is a long-standing RFE to change the HTML layout of the controls
to use an enclosing <span> or <div> to facilitate styling:

http://tinyurl.com/6q7jsg

-Erik

On Aug 6, 2008, at 4:47 AM, <[hidden email]> <[hidden email]
> wrote:

>
> Wouldn't it be better if the builder supported assigning custom class
> attributes to elements so they can be styled with CSS instead of
> supporting
> html? Sounds 'oldschool' and not retro (yet ;-))

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Ronald van Kuijk-2

Re: Re: Re: Re: Form Builder Labels (xform:label) and XHTML rendering

instead of putting html in the label elements and certainly no bold, italic, h1
or whaterver tag ;-)

The tiny url does not work btw, I get to an unknown page.

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Erik Bruchez

Re: Form Builder Labels (xform:label) and XHTML rendering

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> instead of putting html in the label elements and certainly no bold,
> italic, h1
> or whaterver tag ;-)

Right, you wouldn't want to do that ;-)

> The tiny url does not work btw, I get to an unknown page.

Sorry about that, here is a new link:

http://tinyurl.com/6nra6u

-Erik

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