> Hi Alex,
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> Sorry about that.  The parenthesis wasn't missing from my xforms  
> document, just when I pasted it here. It works in a standalone  
> example but not in my main form, so I am trying to figure out what  
> is going on. I don't think you guys will be able to help me with  
> that, but thanks anyway!
>
> Stephanie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alessandro Vernet [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:45 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] Re: Using matches() in a bind
>
> Stephanie,
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> There is a closing parenthesis missing at the end of the XPath  
> expression. Adding it, with the small example I created here, I can  
> see the field being marked as invalid, as expected. If the problem  
> is not with the closing parenthesis, could you post a full (but  
> simple) example that runs in the XForms sandbox and reproduces this?
>
> Alex
>
> On Monday, January 4, 2010, Stephanie Hall (TT) <[hidden email]
> > wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I am hoping someone can point out what I am doing wrong here.  I have
>> a few instances in my page, and on submit, I want to make sure that
>> there are no invalid characters in the name node of one of the
>> instances. However, if I enter "ef@#*$(#$" the form will submit when
>> it should not.
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>> This is what I have currently:
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>> <xforms:bind nodeset="instance('my-instance')/name"
>> constraint="matches(instance('my-instance')/name,'^[0-9A-Za-z]
>> +[0-9A-Z
>> a-z
>> \._-]*$'" type="xs:string"/>
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>> tested the regex by using a regexp validator so I don't think that is
>> the problem.  The instance node is only bound to a simple input, I
>> just only want to accept non-special characters (aside from period,
>> hyphen, underscore and space).
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>> help is very much appreciated!
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>> Thanks,
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>> Stephanie
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