changing order of label, help, hint & alert

> Lets say I wanted the help icon next to the label rather than the
> control, and I wanted the hint text to display above the control rather
> than alongside it.
>
> Rather than mess about with insane CSS hacks to try and reposition these
> elements, I can reorder them fairly easily in theme.xsl - great. However
> there is some code in xforms.js, in the
> ORBEON.xforms.Controls._getControlLabel function, which makes an
> assumption about the ordering of these elements:
>
>     _getControlLabel: function(control, className) {
>         var candidate = control;
>         while (true) {
>             if (candidate == null) break;
>             if (ORBEON.util.Dom.isElement(candidate)
>                     && ORBEON.util.Dom.hasClass(candidate, className))
> break;
>             candidate = className == "xforms-label" ?
> candidate.previousSibling : candidate.nextSibling;
>         }
>         return candidate;
>     },
>
> This means the client side script can't see them, which means they don't
> get things like relevancy correctly updated. If this function is
> reworked so it doesn't care what order these elements are in, everything
> works fine. This is one possible approach - it's not as tidy as the
> above code, but in theory it's slightly 'safer' because it relies on the
> label@for attribute, and it works regardless of ordering:
>  
>     _getControlLabel: function(control, className) {
>         var candidates = control.parentNode.children;
>         for (var candidateIndex = 0; candidateIndex < candidates.length;
> candidateIndex++) {
>             var candidate = candidates[candidateIndex];
>             if(ORBEON.util.Dom.isElement(candidate) &&
>                 (candidate.htmlFor == control.id ||
>                     (className == "xforms-help-image" &&
> candidate.nextSibling && candidate.nextSibling.htmlFor == control.id)) &&
>                 ORBEON.util.Dom.hasClass(candidate, className)) {
>                     return candidate;
>                 }
>         }
>         return null;      
>     },
>
> Adrian
>  
>
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