Posted by Jency Chackummoottil on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/XFDL-Integration-tp32484p32496.html


Hi,
There was an error in the XPL that I sent last day; in handling the
repeats. Please find the attached XPL that handles repeats correctly.
But the issue is not completely solved. Suppose there are controls
beneath the repeat controls. The controls inside the repeat grow
dynamically, but the controls beneath the repeat stay in their position
(since they are positioned using absolute positioning) [Attached please
an XFDL file which uses repeat controls. Run this xfdl against the xpl
and click the Insert New button]. As the repeat controls grow, the
controls beneath them too must move down.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Jency


-----Original Message-----
From: Jency Chackummoottil
[mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:52 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: RE: [ops-users] XFDL Integration


Hi,

I have made slight modifications in the xpl to reflect the following
changes:
1) For controls such as button, textarea, select, and select1, the style
attribute is applied directly to the controls. [Applying style such as
background color, width, font etc to div does not make any effect on
these controls]
2) Repeats are handled. [Not accurate; needs modification]

Attached please find the xfdl which contains Repeat controls and the xpl
which handles the Repeat controls. The form should appear as if in the
attached screen shot. But with the attached xpl, the repeat controls are
not positioned correctly. I'm not sure whether the method used here is
correct. Please help me to rectify this problem.

Also, the issue with <format> tag is not yet solved.

Hope you could help me out in solving these issues.

Thanks in advance
Jency


-----Original Message-----
From: Jency Chackummoottil
[mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:07 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: RE: [ops-users] XFDL Integration


Thanks a lot Alex. The code has now become generic so that it is
applicable for any controls.

Now, the issue is with the <format> tag.
<format>
  <datatype>string</datatype>
        <constraints>
          <length>
          <min>0</min>
          <max>20</max>
       </length>
    </constraints>
 </format>
We need to convert all the constraints in the <format> tag in XFDL to
the corresponding xforms:bind attributes in XForms.

Another issue is that the width and height of an input control cannot be
set using <xhtml:div style="position:absolute; top: 53; left: 131;
width: 154; height: ;>.

Hope you can help me in solving these issues.

Thanks in advance
Jency

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Alessandro Vernet
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 1:28 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [ops-users] XFDL Integration

Hi Jency,

I took your pipeline and updated it; the updated pipeline attached. A
few comments:

- Not that it matters much, but since the XSL file was very simple, I
just got rid of it. So you can call this pipeline from your
page-flow.xml with view="xfdl-to-xhtml.xpl" (no model).
- It is now "generic" in the sense that it supports any level of
nesting (see how templates are being used)
- Alerts for controls display next to the control (not at the top left
of the page)
- It copies some of the styles defined in XFDL over to XHTML (in
particular the background color, font face and size)

Things not yet taken care of:

- There is a second language selection drop-down at the bottom of the
page. That second drop-down is copied over from the XFDL file. Is it
supposed to be there?
- Repeats are not handled.

You can see what it looks like in the attached screenshot. I hope this
helps, and let us know how things are going with your conversion from
XFDL to XHTML.

Alex

On 2/5/07, Jency Chackummoottil <[hidden email]>
wrote:
> Alex,
>
> I'm attaching my source code to transform XFDL to XHTML+ XForms along
> with this. Apply this XSL to the attached XFDL. You can see that the
> constraints in the <format> tag are not applied. We need to convert
all
> these constraints in the <format> tag in XFDL to the corresponding
> xforms:bind attributes in XForms. Also, see the alert icon coming in
the
> top left corner. Also, the width for input controls is not set.
>
> Another problem with this code is that it is not generic. As branching
> increases, (eg, xforms:group has got more number of branches than
> xforms:output), the looping too goes deeper. I don't think this is a
> good way to write XSL. For eg, there can be any number of xforms:group
> control under another xforms:group. Is there any generic way, so that
we all http://www.objectweb.org/wws
>
>
>


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