xforms:serialize function produces invalid xhtml

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>Sent: 07 December 2006 11:47
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: [ops-users] xforms:serialize function produces invalid xhtml
>
>Hi
>
>I notice if you try and call xforms:serialize on xml tags with
>empty content (i.e. <br/> or <img src=".."/> then the output,
>after being passed through the serialize function, is <br> or
><img src="..">.
>
>This is causing me quite a headache as I am looking to pass
>around xhtml as serialized parts of an xml document and i was
>wondering if there was a way of forcing the function to output
>valid xhtml?
>
>Chris.
>
>
>For an example, look at the html output produced by:
><xhtml:html xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
>    xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>    xmlns:xxforms="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms">
>
>    <xhtml:head>
>        <xhtml:title>XForms example</xhtml:title>
>        <xforms:model id="main-model">
>          <xforms:instance id="formatted">
>           <data/>
>          </xforms:instance>
> <xforms:instance id="serialized">
>           <data/>
>          </xforms:instance>
> <xforms:instance id="test">
>           <data>
>         <br/>
>             <b>here is a test</b>
>             <img
>src="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/images/logo.gif"
>alt="google logo"/>
> </data>
>          </xforms:instance>  
>
> <xforms:bind
>nodeset="instance('serialized')"
>calculate="xxforms:serialize(instance('test'), 'html')"/>
>
>
>        </xforms:model>
>    </xhtml:head>
>    <xhtml:body>
>   Serialized data:
> <xhtml:br/>
> <xforms:output ref="instance('serialized')"
>mediatype="text/html"/> (view html produced)
>    </xhtml:body>
></xhtml:html>
>
>

> Chris,
> your using xxforms:serialize(instance('test'), 'html'), so it is
> creating valid *html* not xhtml, use xxforms:serialize(instance('test'),
> 'xhtml') to do that :-)
>
> Ryan
>
> Ryan Puddephatt
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]
>> Sent: 07 December 2006 11:47
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Subject: [ops-users] xforms:serialize function produces invalid xhtml
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I notice if you try and call xforms:serialize on xml tags with
>> empty content (i.e. <br/> or <img src=".."/> then the output,
>> after being passed through the serialize function, is <br> or
>> <img src="..">.
>>
>> This is causing me quite a headache as I am looking to pass
>> around xhtml as serialized parts of an xml document and i was
>> wondering if there was a way of forcing the function to output
>> valid xhtml?
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>>
>> For an example, look at the html output produced by:
>> <xhtml:html xmlns:xforms="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms"
>>    xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>>    xmlns:xxforms="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/xforms">
>>
>>    <xhtml:head>
>>        <xhtml:title>XForms example</xhtml:title>
>>        <xforms:model id="main-model">
>>          <xforms:instance id="formatted">
>>           <data/>
>>          </xforms:instance>
>> <xforms:instance id="serialized">
>>           <data/>
>>          </xforms:instance>
>> <xforms:instance id="test">
>>           <data>
>>         <br/>
>>             <b>here is a test</b>
>>             <img
>> src="http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/images/logo.gif"
>> alt="google logo"/>
>> </data>
>>          </xforms:instance>
>>
>> <xforms:bind
>> nodeset="instance('serialized')"
>> calculate="xxforms:serialize(instance('test'), 'html')"/>
>>
>>
>>        </xforms:model>
>>    </xhtml:head>
>>    <xhtml:body>
>>   Serialized data:
>> <xhtml:br/>
>> <xforms:output ref="instance('serialized')"
>> mediatype="text/html"/> (view html produced)
>>    </xhtml:body>
>> </xhtml:html>
>>
>>
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