Posted by Steven Kerr on Nov 30, 2009; 11:44pm
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Date-formatting-in-Orbeon-3-7-1-tp278175p931740.html

Thanks Bryn & Alex.  That's really good to know and will save me from
fruitless testing :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryn Davies [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, 30 November 2009 19:08
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] RE: Re: RE: .xsd schema and forms

Hi, we also had this problem and were only able to resolve it by
including a bunch of <xforms:bind nodeset="mydatefieldname"
type="xforms:date"/> type declarations in the model section. Far from
ideal as you have pointed out, as we'd also like all type information to
be picked up from the schema, but it does work.

Bryn

-----Original Message-----
From: Baschir Jaghoori [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: 30 November 2009 08:59
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] Re: RE: .xsd schema and forms

Hi Steven,

I've had the same problem:

This is happening because the schema validator tells the XForms code
about the type of the node only if the node is valid. So when the form
is loaded, the XForms code doesn't know <date> contains a date; it just
knows that this field is invalid. Then when you enter a date, the
validator runs again and then tells the XForms code that this is an
xs:date, at which point the XForms engine can switch the appearance of
the field to a date picker.

Obviously, this is not what you want. But it is unclear if we can even
get the validator to tell the XForms code about the type of the node
when it is invalid. So in essence, you can't use a schema to influence
how the <xforms:input> is rendered (text field, date picker, checkbox);
you need to use an <xforms:bind> for that. Of course, you can still use
the schema to validate the data.

BTW, thank you for the use case you attached.

Alex
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Steven Kerr schrieb:
> type="xs:dateTime" in the form binding then it all works fine.  But if

> I leave it out, the form will display a single input box with no
> datepicker. I would like the form get type information from the schema

> and work the same as if I had but it in the form bindings.  Also, what



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