trigger validation without submission

>
>
> Hello Tom,
>
> your help is much appreciated but this is not helping me. Here is what I'm
> trying to do
>                         <xforms:trigger>
> <xforms:label>Make invalid</xforms:label>
> <xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
> <xforms:setvalue ref="instance('integer')/integer" value="'string'"/>
> <xforms:dispatch name="xforms-revalidate" target="main"/>
> <!-- If the form is invalid I don't want the following code to be executed
> -->
> <xforms:message>Further action taken!</xforms:message>
> </xforms:action>
> </xforms:trigger>
> I want, if the form is not valid, the message "Further action taken!"
> shouldn't be displayed. This is what we want to achieve. The actual code is
> showing the message even if the form is invalid (we don't want that).
> Our solution for the moment is to hide the button if the form is not valid.
> We do that like this:
> <xxforms:variable name="displayButtons"
> select="if(xxforms:valid(instance('userRequest')/., true()))then 'visible'
> else 'hidden'"/>
> <xhtml:div id="buttons" style="visibility:{$displayButtons}">
>                         <xforms:trigger>
> <xforms:label>Make invalid</xforms:label>
> <xforms:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
> <xforms:setvalue ref="instance('integer')/integer" value="'string'"/>
> <xforms:dispatch name="xforms-revalidate" target="main"/>
> <!-- If the form is invalid I don't want the following code to be executed
> -->
> <xforms:message>Further action taken!</xforms:message>
> </xforms:action>
> </xforms:trigger>
> </xhtml:div>
> This works good for the moment, but we would like to display the buttons
> too, and if the user press the button, the button's action is not executed
> until the form is valid - whatever this action might be NOT ONLY submission.
> Thanks,
> Alexandru
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:30, Tom Grahame <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alexandru,
>>
>> If you mean a change in the form as you see it in the browser, nothing
>> will
>> change unless you configure it to do so. Events occur as the processing
>> model is executed, but you need to listen for them and declare your
>> additional behaviour.
>>
>> I've attached a simple example to demonstrate what I mean:
>> http://n4.nabble.com/file/n1599191/revalidate.zip revalidate.zip
>>
>> Unzip revalidate.zip and drop the folder under /apps
>> hit
>> http://localhost:8080/orbeon/revalidate/
>> in your browser
>> Click the buttons.
>>
>> It is useful to watch the logs and see the events as the occur.
>>
>> Also, I'm not sure why Orbeon uses xxforms-valid and not xforms-valid.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Tom
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>
> Hello Tom,
> thanks for pointing me in the right direction. This was exactly what I was
> looking for. I hope this is working in Orbeon because I didn't test it yet.
> Thanks,
> Alexandru
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#action-iterated
>
> <trigger>
>    <label>Get Sum</label>
>    <action ev:event="DOMActivate">
>       <setvalue ref="instance('temps')/counter" value="1"/>
>       <setvalue ref="instance('temps')/accumulator" value="0"/>
>       <action while="instance('temps')/counter <= count(/some/nodes)">
>          <setvalue ref="instance('temps')/accumulator"
>                    value=". +
> instance('default')/some/nodes[number(instance('temps')/counter)]"
>
> if="boolean-from-string(/some/nodes[number(instance('temps')/counter)]/@selected)"/>
>          <setvalue ref="instance('temps')/counter" value=". + 1"/>
>       </action>
>    </action>
> </trigger>
>
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> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:07, Tom Grahame <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Alex, Alexandru,
>>
>> It seems I have not understood the problem, so I am going to bow out of
>> this
>> thread...
>>
>> My only remaining comment is that perhaps the 'if' action might be useful
>> somewhere.
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#attrs-action-common
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#attrs-action-common
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Tom
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