> Yes an option would be great. I think making it a global setting would be
> too rigid, but making a model / instance attribute may be more appropriate.
> I would be happy to contribute a solution if you could point me in the right
> direction.
> Thx
> Nicolas
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 10:06 PM, "Erik Bruchez-3 [via Orbeon Forms
> (ops-users)]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> What you are asking makes a lot of sense. In fact, that's something we
> think is broken in XForms! Basically, the required property does not
> make much sense as is in most cases.
>
> You can usually add e.g. constraint="normalize-space() != ''" and have
> the desired behavior.
>
> We have also thought about having an option to change the meaning of
> required to "non-blank" instead of the current "non-empty".
>
> -Erik
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:56 PM, npujol73 <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>>
>> I have not seen any response to this. Does what I am asking  NOT make
>> sense?
>> I would think that from a practical standpoint others would have
>> encountered
>> situations where one or more blank DOES not make up a valid field value
>> and
>> hence if the field is required, it should remain in error. That seems like
>> a
>> convenient global form setting.
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