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controlling location of group label

Adrian Baker-2
Previously I was able to do something like this to put a group label
inside a table header:

<xforms:group>
    <xhtml:table>
        <xhtml:thead>
            <xhtml:tr>
                <xhtml:td>
                    <xforms:label>A group</xforms:label>
                </xhtml:td>
            </xhtml:tr>
        </xhtml:thead>
        <xhtml:tbody>
            <xhtml:tr>
                <xhtml:td>
                    <xforms:input bind="bind-input1" id="input1">
                        <xforms:label>Input</xforms:label>
                    </xforms:input>
                </xhtml:td>
            </xhtml:tr>
        </xhtml:tbody>
    </xhtml:table>
</xforms:group>

This no longer works as a result of a fix for [ #305144 ] Group with
label removes labels from children controls: the label is explicitly
written out as a child of the generated <xhtml:span>. Is this correct?
Should the above approach still be supported?

Adrian



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Re: controlling location of group label

Alessandro Vernet
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Adrian,

I am not sure if this is at all valid XForms, and if it is, it is not
clear to me what this means. What semantic do you want to describe by
having this <xforms:label> in a <xhtml:td>?

Alex

On 5/16/06, Adrian Baker <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Previously I was able to do something like this to put a group label
> inside a table header:
>
> <xforms:group>
>     <xhtml:table>
>         <xhtml:thead>
>             <xhtml:tr>
>                 <xhtml:td>
>                     <xforms:label>A group</xforms:label>
>                 </xhtml:td>
>             </xhtml:tr>
>         </xhtml:thead>
>         <xhtml:tbody>
>             <xhtml:tr>
>                 <xhtml:td>
>                     <xforms:input bind="bind-input1" id="input1">
>                         <xforms:label>Input</xforms:label>
>                     </xforms:input>
>                 </xhtml:td>
>             </xhtml:tr>
>         </xhtml:tbody>
>     </xhtml:table>
> </xforms:group>
>
> This no longer works as a result of a fix for [ #305144 ] Group with
> label removes labels from children controls: the label is explicitly
> written out as a child of the generated <xhtml:span>. Is this correct?
> Should the above approach still be supported?
>
> Adrian
>
>
>
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Adrian Baker-2
Well, I want the group to be represented by a table, with it's label in a <thead> element (controlling the placement of labels in XForms is a constant challenge!) eg

+----------------+
|Group label     |
+----------------+
|                |
| Group contents |
|                |
+----------------+

If this isn't valid I guess I can introduce it down in theme.xsl, in the same way the <xhtml:fieldset> tags get added..

Adrian


Alessandro Vernet wrote:
Adrian,

I am not sure if this is at all valid XForms, and if it is, it is not
clear to me what this means. What semantic do you want to describe by
having this <xforms:label> in a <xhtml:td>?

Alex

On 5/16/06, Adrian Baker [hidden email] wrote:
Previously I was able to do something like this to put a group label
inside a table header:

<xforms:group>
    <xhtml:table>
        <xhtml:thead>
            <xhtml:tr>
                <xhtml:td>
                    <xforms:label>A group</xforms:label>
                </xhtml:td>
            </xhtml:tr>
        </xhtml:thead>
        <xhtml:tbody>
            <xhtml:tr>
                <xhtml:td>
                    <xforms:input bind="bind-input1" id="input1">
                        <xforms:label>Input</xforms:label>
                    </xforms:input>
                </xhtml:td>
            </xhtml:tr>
        </xhtml:tbody>
    </xhtml:table>
</xforms:group>

This no longer works as a result of a fix for [ #305144 ] Group with
label removes labels from children controls: the label is explicitly
written out as a child of the generated <xhtml:span>. Is this correct?
Should the above approach still be supported?

Adrian




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Erik Bruchez
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Adrian,

Our interpretation of the spec is that xforms:label has to be a direct
child of a control (or of xforms:group).

But you can use xforms:output instead of xforms:label. You lose a bit of
semantic, but that's not too much of a problem.

By the way at the moment we are not convinced that the automatic
post-processing of xforms:group/xforms:label into an xhtml:fieldset, as
we do it now, is the best idea. xforms:group supports the @appearance
attribute, and that may be a better way of doing it, either natively or
with XSLT (but XSLT unfortunately is slower).

-Erik

Adrian Baker wrote:

> Well, I want the group to be represented by a table, with it's label in
> a <thead> element (controlling the placement of labels in XForms is a
> constant challenge!) eg
>
> +----------------+
> |Group label     |
> +----------------+
> |                |
> | Group contents |
> |                |
> +----------------+
>
> If this isn't valid I guess I can introduce it down in theme.xsl, in the
> same way the <xhtml:fieldset> tags get added..
>
> Adrian
>
>
> Alessandro Vernet wrote:
>> Adrian,
>>
>> I am not sure if this is at all valid XForms, and if it is, it is not
>> clear to me what this means. What semantic do you want to describe by
>> having this <xforms:label> in a <xhtml:td>?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On 5/16/06, Adrian Baker <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>> Previously I was able to do something like this to put a group label
>>> inside a table header:
>>>
>>> <xforms:group>
>>>     <xhtml:table>
>>>         <xhtml:thead>
>>>             <xhtml:tr>
>>>                 <xhtml:td>
>>>                     <xforms:label>A group</xforms:label>
>>>                 </xhtml:td>
>>>             </xhtml:tr>
>>>         </xhtml:thead>
>>>         <xhtml:tbody>
>>>             <xhtml:tr>
>>>                 <xhtml:td>
>>>                     <xforms:input bind="bind-input1" id="input1">
>>>                         <xforms:label>Input</xforms:label>
>>>                     </xforms:input>
>>>                 </xhtml:td>
>>>             </xhtml:tr>
>>>         </xhtml:tbody>
>>>     </xhtml:table>
>>> </xforms:group>
>>>
>>> This no longer works as a result of a fix for [ #305144 ] Group with
>>> label removes labels from children controls: the label is explicitly
>>> written out as a child of the generated <xhtml:span>. Is this correct?
>>> Should the above approach still be supported?
>>>
>>> Adrian
>>>
>>>
>>>
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