Posted by Erik Bruchez on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/DMV-Forms-Example-tp27273p27333.html

Technically, nothing is "moved": it just happens that the element is
called xhtml:input in XHTML, and xforms:input in XForms, and that they
have a similar function. However, they are different elements.

An xforms:input, in particular, can be rendered in ways different than
an HTML input element: it can end up being a date picker, or be one of
those "edit in place" widgets.

This is even clearer if you look at xforms:select1, which does not
have the same name in HTML, or xforms:range, which does not even have
an equivalent in HTML.

In order to be consistent, we have decided that whenever possible, the
HTML "translation" of XForms controls would be encapsulated within a
<span> with the id of the respective XForms control, and that the
extra HTML attributes present on the XForms control would be copied to
that <span> element as well.

As you have seen, this is not without problems when it comes to
styling, but we don't think it is necessarily a bad solution. Styling
in XForms, to be done perfectly right, would in fact require being
able to address the XForms elements directly and perform a translation
of CSS styles and rules to apply to the translated HTML elements that
make the most sense.

As to theme.xsl, something like this should do:

     <xsl:template match="xhtml:span[contains(@class, 'xforms-input')
and xhtml:input]">
         <xsl:copy>
             <xsl:copy-of select="@* except @style"/>
             <xsl:apply-templates/>
         </xsl:copy>
     </xsl:template>

     <xsl:template
match="xhtml:input[parent::xhtml:span[contains(@class, 'xforms-input')]]">
         <xsl:copy>
             <xsl:copy-of select="(@*, ../@style)"/>
             <xsl:apply-templates/>
         </xsl:copy>
     </xsl:template>

-Erik

Richard Braman wrote:
 > What if the height,width,and font-size of each input tag are different.
 > I don't understand why the attributes of the <input> are being moved to
 > the <span> by OPS.  I don't understand the assumption that it is OK to
 > move someones attributes from one tag to another.  I also really don't
 > understand what is accomplished by moving them. How can I fix this in
 > theme.xsl?  I rellay don't want to move them back because I never wanted
 > them to move to begin with.




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