Paragraphs in xforms textarea

Hi,

this could all be my imagination, but it seems that if I use a regular
HTML form talking to some cgi, and I have a textarea, then on the
server I see the carriage returns and blank lines, but if I use an
XForms textarea then the carriage returns and blank lines are replaced
with a space.

Is there any way to control this?

Thanks & regards
Colin




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Hi

I have tested this every way I can think of, with and without the
appearance attribute, using every possible value the spec and previous
threads on the list suggest, and nothing seems to make any difference.
What I am working on is a textarea, and the user types something like
This is para 1

This is para2

but on the server my pipeline receives it as
This is para 1 This is para2

Does anybody have a way to retain the line break on the server?
Is there something in OPS processing that is taking it out?
Am I really the only person who would want the user to be able to type
some text and be able to reproduce it as is afterwards?!?

This seems to me to be normal behavior outside, in other environments
such as HTML forms and CGI.

Thanks for any help
Colin


On Jan 17, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Colin O'Brien wrote:



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Hi

just in case anyone else wanders down this hole, let me explain.

I was looking at the text returned from my form using the OPS debug
facility in Eclipse.
This indeed shows multiple cr/lfs as a single space.

Now that I have actually gotten to writing some code to do something
with the text returned from the form, I realize that the cr/lfs have
been there all along.

So they are where it matters, but debug can be misleading (normally I
hope it will explain what I am doing wrong ;-)

Best regards
Colin

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Colin,

How are you accessing the content of the text area? I tried entering
text with line returns in the "Translate This" example. That example
uses an XForms submission to send the instance to a service implemented
with XPL:

<xforms:submission
   ref="instance('request-instance')"
   id="default-submission"
   method="post"
   action="/direct/xforms-translate/post"
   replace="instance"
   instance="response-instance"/>

The service is implemented in post.xpl. I modified it to use the File
serializer to store the submitted instance to a file:

     <p:processor name="oxf:xml-converter">
         <p:input name="config">
             <config>
                 <encoding>utf-8</encoding>
             </config>
         </p:input>
         <p:input name="data" href="#instance"/>
         <p:output name="data" id="converted"/>
     </p:processor>

     <p:processor name="oxf:file-serializer">
         <p:input name="data" href="#converted"/>
         <p:input name="config">
             <config>
                 <content-type>text/xml</content-type>
                 <file>c:/test-cr.xml</file>
             </config>
         </p:input>
     </p:processor>

The resulting file does have line breaks.

Note that the particular "Translate This" example doesn't return line
breaks, but that's because it sends the data to Google, etc., so more
processing is involved. But the point is that all the way until the
submission, I get the line breaks.

Now you are using a Mac, right? Maybe that makes a difference. Can you
reproduce what I did above (of course modifying the resulting file
destination / name) and check if you do get the line breaks?

-Erik

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Colin O'Brien wrote: I should have read this before sending my previous reply! Anyway, now I
know that we do get line breaks upon XForms submission ;-)

-Erik




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